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To: Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
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Subject: Re: Ugly fonts...solution
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Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

> >>>>> "jjn" == Joe Nuspl <nuspl@nvwls.cc.purdue.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     jjn> The past copy of weeks, people have been complaining about
>     jjn> the fonts under X.  The solution...use PostScript fonts.
>     jjn> Since the folks at adobe were generous enough to distribute
>     jjn> the base fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol,
>     jjn> Zapf-Dingbats), it would be a shame not to use them.
> 
> Do these really look good on your machine?  I've tried using PS fonts
> with X for a long time.  The result is has always been disappointing,
> at least on X11R6.1.  for example, the # character doesn't have
> straight lines.  There's always a jagged line.  Many other things look
> bad too.  In fact, I switched everything back to the standard X
> bitmapped fonts.  If XEmacs wants to use blah-blah-weight-i-blah, I've
> always changed it to blah-blah-weight-o-blah.  Looks MUCH better.

Depending on which X server you use, you may be able to get the server to
use bitmap fonts where available, and scale PostScript fonts where not.
This lets you have nice small and large fonts at the same time.

Under XFree86, you can do this by specifying :unscaled at the end of
every directory in the font path for which you want scaled fonts to be ignored.
This is the appropriate section in my XF86Config file:

FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

