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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Niall Kavanagh wrote: > One way to get around the tiny font problem is to use one of the truetype > font servers out there along with your windows fonts. If you don't use > windows at all, microsoft has kindly put a "web font pack" on their website > for download. <SARCHASM>Boy, I feel ingratiated! THank GOD for Microsoft! :) </SARCHASM> Yes - I know this is an option, but this is a problem infrequently enough for me that it isn't worth the effort, though some people may be more inclined to care. > The problem isn't netscape (though it's unwillingness to abide by the user's > preferences is somewhat perplexing?), it's XFree86. It's horrible with > fonts! Fortunately there are truetype font servers available (check on > freshmeat.net), and it's being addressed for XFree86 4.0. Well, this is a problem on all implementations of the X Window System that I know of, and I'm not even going to attempt to get TrueType fonts working on a production Solaris or HP box... also not worth the effort, especially if I royally screw up, which I've been known to do a time or two... :) > I suppose we could point a finger at the web page authors for not doing some > simple tests to see what their pages look like under other operating > systems, but in this case it's somewhat hopeless. Depending on what the end > user's preferences are, they can easily muck up a well designed page. I've > been a lot happier with netscape since I started using truetype fonts under > X. Agreed... there's no need to blame US (User Stupidity) on the web developers, but the converse is true also... Someone with a reasonably sane configuration (for their own environment) should be able to read web pages, and the fact is some web pages are designed in such a way to make this very difficult. Ever try reading planetquake's web page from a Unix Netscape client? Break out the fresnel lenses! > Side note... using relative font sizes in HTML (<font size="-1">) is FAR > better than setting absolute sizes (<font size="1">). A relative size tells > the browser to go "-1" down from the user's preference, where as the > absolute is just that... an absolute size that may not even be legible in > the user's browser. Agreed... I know what they do... but you should know that! ******************************* | Derek D. Martin | | UNIX System Administrator | | derek.martin at ne.arris-i.com | ******************************* - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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