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Lechium
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:03 am Post subject: Fonts. |
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I had noticed that the default fonts i got with Gentoo kinda suck... I know that many popular fonts are copywrighted and whatnot, however after using Mac at home sites i visit now look much worse with the fonts I have access to. Aestecially that is a problem for me, and that means a lot to me... so is there a way to get real fonts or at least ones that look a lot like the real ones. I am talking about Arial, Venrada (or whatever it is), Times New Roman and such.
thanks,
Victor |
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Archangel1
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Or to get something better than those - let's face it, they're pretty average, and Times is nasty:
| Code: | | emerge ttf-bitstream-vera |
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Lechium
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:50 am Post subject: |
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thanks -- it is lopoking much better already.
thanks,
Victor
p.s. any other fonts you will suggest? |
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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I would also emerge freefonts, sharefonts, and artwiz-fonts. One thing I always do to make my fonts look better is to remove some of the ugly default ones.
Try this:
| Code: | cd /usr/share/fonts
mv TTF /tmp/.
fc-cache -fv |
I personally don't care for the fonts in the TTF directory, and this will get them out of the way. The directory is still stored in /tmp if you want to move it back.
| Code: | cd /tmp
mv TTF /usr/share/fonts/. |
Also make sure in your xorg.conf you have all the newely installed fonts set in the FontPath section. You will probably need to add directories for /usr/share/corefonts, etc... |
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