[PLUG] Why Do Fonts Look Bad in Linux?

[Dan Young]

Here's a place to start for truetype. No beating around the bush here; it's
called font de-uglification.

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/

Also, here is some stuff from a page on doing Turkish(!) language support in
Redhat 7.2. Funny how non-English users have to deal with this stuff more
overtly and end up driving the documentation on the font front.

http://www.arayan.com/da/linux.html

Copy trutype fonts from a windows system (*.ttf) to
/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType.

cd /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType
ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
mkfontdir

Select these fonts in your favorite web browser and enjoy!

-Dan Young

> WOW!!!!!   It worked like magic and I have not even rebooted. It's not
> perfect, but it's an incredable visual difference.  I can read the
> small  print now and not get as big a headache reading funny looking
> medium print.  Abiword might as well be a Linux saboteur.
>
> I am still not sure how to install the TrueType though.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> tjg at craigelachie.org wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 15:06, Robert wrote:
>>> Abiword is there, but I have never uninstalled a Linux program
>>> before. What is the prefered method to nuke it from Red Hat 7.2 ?
>>>
>>> Robert
>>
>> as root...
>>
>> rpm -e abiword
>>
>> And this is a good fix to many font problems. Also the advice about
>> TrueType is also very good. You can find an RPM that contains the
>> Microsoft web fonts at RPMFind.
>>
>
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