Font HOWTO For Linux

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Posted by Hemos on Friday October 25, 2002 @11:53AM from the making-it-pretty dept.

big-dog writes "The Register is running a good HOWTO on getting fonts to look better in Linux." Making things look purty is always good.

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Strange by sasquatchoflove · 2002-10-25 11:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Isn't it strange that this gets posted as I'm futzing with my fonts? I open konqueror to test them and I see this!! Just confirms my fears that THEY are watching my every move...
1. Re:Strange by Dragon213 · 2002-10-25 11:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  ahhhh!!!! the paranoids are after me!!!!
  
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2. Re:Strange by isorox · 2002-10-25 12:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Just confirms my fears that THEY are watching my every move...
  
  No they're not. don't be paranoid.
  
  P.S. If you turn round you'll knock that can off your desk - just a friendly warning ;)
3. Re:Strange by spoonist · 2002-10-25 13:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wake up, Neo.
  
  The Matrix has you.
  
  Follow the white rabbit.
Purty, huh? by Powercntrl · 2002-10-25 11:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Does that mean they'll look like they were sprayed with Rust-Oleum? That's how my grandfather makes everything purdy.

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Am I the only one... by teamhasnoi · 2002-10-25 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

who doesn't like the 'fuzzy' fonts? If you turn Clear Type on in XP or use IE for OS X the fonts seem to be *harder* to read. (to me)
I want fonts to be antialiased on paper, not on the screen.
If you don't have ClearType or font smoothing, you can approximate the effect.
Just smear Vaseline evenly over your screen - voila! Antialiased fonts!
It worked for Cybil Shepard on 'Moonlighting'.
Re:Fonts in Linux? by The+Bungi · 2002-10-25 12:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Will this be a +1 insightful or a -1 troll? Ladies and gents, place your bets!
Who the fuck cares.
Re:What about Xft? by StuffYourReligion · 2002-10-25 12:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Never mind XFT. WTF!?

You have Trillian running in linux?
Don't tell me you've soaked it in wine...

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Re:Fonts are important by scotch · 2002-10-25 13:07 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree, with some modifications:
:%s/user/man/
:%s/fonts/women/g
:%s/my Sparc\/Solaris/ugly\/skanky/
:%s/unix\/linux interfaces/shit hole apartment I live in/

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Re:Because he's RIGHT. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 14:39 · Score: 2, Funny

well then what the hell are you doing reading and posting on slashdot? this isnt "News for Moms, Making Solitaire Easy". if you want to sit around and not bother doing things yourself, just go back to your aol channel and find some nice football chat.
purty by Laplace · 2002-10-25 16:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Making things look purty is always good.

Unless it's the layout and color scheme of Slashdot.

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Re:A suggestion for RH8 users. by DigiBoi · 2002-10-25 17:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Who modded this up? It all depends on how you set up your system, there is NO standard filesystem structure for XFree86 configuration files.

i prefer putting every thing in /Documents\ and\ Settings/

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I have a Geforce by matula · 2002-10-25 21:13 · Score: 2, Funny

so i don't need no font antialiasing! :)

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