[olug] Phoenix

[Jacobs, Robert A.]

Its the same thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blaufuss, Shane [mailto:sblaufuss at fnni.com]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:18 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: RE: [olug] Phoenix


Saw this one on Friday (may or may not be the same thing as the slashdot
info below):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Penne [mailto:epenne at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Re: [olug] Phoenix
> 
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/1514240&mode=neste
> d&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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