[PLUG-TALK] Available Fonts in Firefox on Ubuntu

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:34:43 -0800
"Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> dijo:

> I'm working on a small web site that needs to display a somewhat fancy 
> font. I'm designing the site on my Ubuntu machine and looking at it with 
> Firefox. I don't expect the fonts to look the same in Firefox on Ubuntu 
> as they do in Firefox on XP, but I expect there to be something in the 
> font family that is at least similar enough to get the idea across.
> 
> My problem is that there doesn't seem to be a cursive font family for 
> Firefox on Ubuntu.
> 
> Here's what I'm talking about:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/FontFamilyTest/
> 
> As you can see from the screen shots, there is a cursive font on XP, but 
> not on Ubuntu. Is there a way to fix this so I can see cursive fonts in 
> Firefox on Ubuntu?

I have no idea of the answer. But I'm watching this thread with great
interest. Displaying fonts on web sites is a matter of great interest
and concern to me. I hope web gurus will respond.