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Lawless
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: modular xorg - helvetica/font question |
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Hi,
just upgraded to xorg 7 now having a few problems with my fonts...
I saw that out of the bix they have left out many fonts - so I had to install bitstream vera for example...
Now I'm searching helvetica - because the installed version only has font size 10 and 12 but no 11 - which I use. The size above and below just look awful.
How to get my old helvetica back?
Are there any other 'important' font packages I should install or do I have to watch out for apps that don't look like they looked befor....
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Ok after emerging xfontsel I see that I can choose helvetica with 11px but I cannot choose it within applications (I want it in licq)
I have no helvetica 11 font/file on the system - so why can I see it with xfontsel and why not with licq??
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My best guess would be that you're looking at the Helvetica type1 font, which does indeed look like ass. There supposedly exists a better version of the font; I do not know in which package it is however.
Are you actually using Helvetica as a system font, or is it just that some applications (like Firefox) use it?
In case of the latter, you could try and install the corefonts package; it contains arial, which often gets used over Helvetica. You could also alias Helvetica to something else through /etc/fonts/local.conf, like I do. |
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My problem is that I do not want an anti aliased font - I tried a lot of TTFs for the licq interface and most of them just look blurred because of AA.
I loved the sharp edges of helvetica - easy to read (my opinion ;)
I now use verdana which is the best choice so far...
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Yeah, after reading your post again I kinda figured.
You actually want to use Helvetica  .
Can't help you with that I'm afraid. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I seem to be the only person who wants none AA'd fonts ;p
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