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Re: XFree-4.0.1

Subject: Re: XFree-4.0.1
Jamesvi@asu.edu
Date: Mon Jul 10 12:29:24 2000


Thanks. It is back up now. :-)
James

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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 Jamesvi@asu.edu wrote:

> Alphalinux.org appears to be down. Anybody know what's up or can bring it
> back up? Thanks,
> James
>
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> James Fowler
> Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
> Arizona State University
> jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266
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>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Peter Petrakis wrote:
>
> > > Please tell us if it looks like a child drawing with Crayola or whether
> > > the font server and renderers have it looking as good as a WINDOZE
> > > screen?
> >
> > Actually it looks quite good. At the moment I have helix gnome using a
> > theme with the customized font being MS verdana. I can scale the font
> > 8-72 pts and gnome handles them quite nicely. I have netscape using the
> > TTF fonts though it will only display them at 12 pt. I got around that
> > by adding the following lines after some testing to my .Xdefaults
> >
> > Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 10
> > Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 85
> > Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 85
> >
> > I've noticed though that in netscape wont display the font in bold or
> > italic, it just looks normal.
> >
> > I believe the xtt backend works in XF-4.0 as well. Note you need the
> > mkttfdir tool from the perlftlib to generate the fonts.dir files.
> >
> > Peter
> >
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