On Sunday 15 May 2005 06:01 am, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 5/14/05, Michael B Allen <mba2000@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just installed FC3. I feel like the font in Firefox is odd. The lines > > have a lot of space between them. I think I might be missing some fonts. > > If I look at the font menu I have a very narrow list of odd fonts like > > Nimbus and Utopia but none of the normal fonts like Times New Roman, > > Arial, or Helvetica. > > > > I copied over my ttf fonts and added them to the font path (actually > > using XFS) and varified their availability in xfontsel but still Firefox > > has a very limited goofy set of fonts. How can I get just plain Times New > > Roman? > > > > Also, is there a way to disable the anti-aliasing or whatever smoothing > > is going on? IMHO I think it looks retarded and would like to turn it > > off. > > > > Thanks, > > Mike Mike, in addition to my earlier message. you might try to package some of your fonts and install them via a RPM file so that they get added to the font cache as well as the font path. adding them using XFS and using xfontsel does not add them to the free type cache. Firefox uses the free type fonts if it can find them. I have packaged several fonts in an RPM to install them on my FC3 box here and when I installed them they worked perfectly. you can find the rpm here http://www.skinartz.com/msfonts-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm James
Attachment:
pgpoiv9geGCfD.pgp
Description: PGP signature
