[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[Adam Williams]

>>>Has anyone tried this "tweak" for True Type Fonts?
>>>http://theregus.com/content/4/26770.html
>>>Does it make things better or worse?
>>>I'm thinking about grabbing the source RPM for "freetype" (if Redhat
>>>supplies it on their FTP site :)  

Actually, I can't find it.  updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS has no
freetype file.  But my 7.2 box has freetype-2.0.9-2, while what comes
with RH72 is 2.0.3-7.  Hmmm....  Ok, updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386
doesn't have any freetype updates either.

But it isn't a Ximian or third-party package -
Name        : freetype                     Relocations: (not
relocateable)
Version     : 2.0.9                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 2                             Build Date: Wed 27 Mar 2002
12:06:28 PM EST
Install date: Sat 21 Sep 2002 08:48:53 PM EDT      Build Host:
porky.devel.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM:
freetype-2.0.9-2.src.rpm


>and rebuilding it with the patch
>>>mentioned, and making that an "extra" on BSware if it really works ...
>I rebuilt the RPM with the patch mentioned, and so far I haven't been
>able to tell the difference.  I even took some screen shots first of web
>pages that have hard-to-read fonts to compare.  (including newsforge :)
>>>My desktop users still complain about poor fonts in web browsers, even
>>>after loading the TTF's from their windows partition in XFS.
>>There are a couple of other tweaks here that may prove beneficial:
>>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
>Thanks!  There is some good stuff there.