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[Eric Penne]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/1514240&mode=nested&tid=106

Howto for fonts


ERic


--- "William E. Kempf" <wekempf at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Nick Walter said:
> > Well, I'd like to tell you that Mozilla is a replacement for IE,
> but
> > that isn't quite true.  It's an upgrade.
> >
> > I switched to Mozilla a few months ago to check it out, and now
> it's my
> > only browser on my Win98 and Red Hat systems.  Pop-up blocking,
> good
> > privacy controls, image blocking, it's all there.  And believe me,
> > tabbed browsing is like a wheel mouse.  When you first see it, it
> looks
> > funny.  Two weeks later, you wonder how you ever got along without
> it.
> >
> > In terms of functionality, all the plugins and javascript support
> needed
> > are available for Mozilla.  Also, Mozilla can generally run any
> Netscape
> > 6/7 plugins without a hitch, so that expands the available plugin
> pool
> > considerably also.
> >
> > The only downside I've ever seen to Mozilla relates to fonts,
> especially
> > in a linux system that doesn't have a good set of fonts installed. 
> Some
> > sloppy web page designers target their pages at the set of IE fonts
> (and
> > apparently only test with IE) so when Mozilla attempts to render
> some
> > pages without those fonts available things look a touch off. 
> That's a
> > minor issue and doesn't happen very often though.
> 
> Any recommendations on how to go about getting a good set of fonts
> installed?  Font repositories, HOWTO articles, ways to use existing
> fonts
> on a Win32 system, etc?
> 
> The font support has been one of my biggest complaints about Linux in
> general.  Even with KDE 3.0, which was supposed to have improved
> things
> (and it did), fonts still often look terrible and are hard to read. 
> I've
> recently had to use OpenOffice to do a presentation (which will, in
> the
> end, be saved as a PowerPoint file), and the font rendering there is
> SOOOOO bad that my productivity is WAAAAY down.  Unfortunately, I
> don't
> have PowerPoint with my Office XP on the Win32 machine, so I'm stuck
> doing
> it this way.
> 
> -- 
> William E. Kempf
> 
> 
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