Dudydoo Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 Why do wepages always look crap in Mozilla and other browsers under linux. i.e. neowin.net fonts are very small, some images are out of place and others not displayed??? See screen shot for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLordSouron Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 o then u don't have the file viewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 Install the ttf fonts and grab the xft tweaked mozilla http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly...perimental/xft/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 Yeah. Just grab the fonts from the Windows partition if you have it. Once installed, the web pages should look exactly the same as their Windows counterparts. This applies for Mozilla 1.2 Alpha and above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudydoo Posted December 22, 2002 Author Share Posted December 22, 2002 Yeah. Just grab the fonts from the Windows partition if you have it. Once installed, the web pages should look exactly the same as their Windows counterparts. This applies for Mozilla 1.2 Alpha and above. Hi, do you mean copy the fonts from c:\windows\fonts to linux? if so were do I put them on my linux drive? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Hi, do you mean copy the fonts from c:\windows\fonts to linux? if so were do I put them on my linux drive?Thanks Open KDE control center>Advanced>Font Installer Just use it to install your ttf fonts its effortless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted December 22, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2002 or... http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/FDU/truetype.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudydoo Posted December 22, 2002 Author Share Posted December 22, 2002 Hi, do you mean copy the fonts from c:\windows\fonts to linux? if so were do I put them on my linux drive?Thanks Open KDE control center>Advanced>Font Installer Just use it to install your ttf fonts its effortless. I can't find an Advanced option in my KDE control centre. I'm using RedHat 8 and KDE 3. Do I have to be root or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudydoo Posted December 22, 2002 Author Share Posted December 22, 2002 Excellent!! I followed configure's link (the howto) and also followed the fonts section in the redhat guide and neowin now looks as good as on windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/FDU/truetype.html Actually, it's little old.. In RedHat 8, all you have to do are put the new fonts in the ~/.fonts, that's it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Or you could edit the XF86Config-4 to link the fonts if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagal Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 is there a way to just point to all the fonts in the windows directory instead of copying all of them to the linux drive? e.g: I have my fonts in /mnt/c/windows/Fonts, and I'd love to find a way to just point to that folder and get them working in linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 is there a way to just point to all the fonts in the windows directory instead of copying all of them to the linux drive?e.g: I have my fonts in /mnt/c/windows/Fonts, and I'd love to find a way to just point to that folder and get them working in linux. Well, have you tried it yet? It won't hurt to add a line in the XF86Config(-4) and see what happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Use this if you have an rpm distro: Try using this package, make sure you build it like this: download this package and install it. download this open the file in a text editor and change: %define has_windows_license "no" to %define has_windows_license "yes" then follow from step 7 from here It will have all the fonts you need to display the pages correctly :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 I can't find an Advanced option in my KDE control centre. I'm using RedHat 8 and KDE 3. Do I have to be root or something? I'm not sure if its called 'advanced' its the last one on the tree view on the left. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-]}LHXP{[- Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 (edited) I can't find an Advanced option in my KDE control centre. I'm using RedHat 8 and KDE 3. Do I have to be root or something? I'm not sure if its called 'advanced' its the last one on the tree view on the left. :D Edited to avoid spamming. Edited December 23, 2002 by -]}LHXP{[- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTR Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/FDU/truetype.html Actually, it's little old.. In RedHat 8, all you have to do are put the new fonts in the ~/.fonts, that's it! Does that means /usr/share/fonts, /etc/fonts or should I create /root/.fonts ? (I'm using rh8 as root) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Does that means /usr/share/fonts, /etc/fonts or should I create /root/.fonts ? (I'm using rh8 as root) copy the ttfs to /root/.fonts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/FDU/truetype.html Actually, it's little old.. In RedHat 8, all you have to do are put the new fonts in the ~/.fonts, that's it! Does that means /usr/share/fonts, /etc/fonts or should I create /root/.fonts ? (I'm using rh8 as root) It's your choice. Check in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and you will see the list of path. ~/.fonts are much easier thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Or if you wereto use soem Red Hat font utility to import Windows fonts, don't import like 500 of them at once! It will seriously crash your Red Hat. The same happened to me in Mandrake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagal Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 is there a way to just point to all the fonts in the windows directory instead of copying all of them to the linux drive?e.g: I have my fonts in /mnt/c/windows/Fonts, and I'd love to find a way to just point to that folder and get them working in linux. Well, have you tried it yet? It won't hurt to add a line in the XF86Config(-4) and see what happen. I have no clue what you mean man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 is there a way to just point to all the fonts in the windows directory instead of copying all of them to the linux drive?e.g: I have my fonts in /mnt/c/windows/Fonts, and I'd love to find a way to just point to that folder and get them working in linux. Well, have you tried it yet? It won't hurt to add a line in the XF86Config(-4) and see what happen. I have no clue what you mean man... Add "/mnt/blah/to/the/windows/fonts" in the XF86Config(-4) if you already have the automatic mount the Windows. I don't know if it will work, so I said that it won't hurt to try it. If you have RedHat 8 or Xft2/Fontconfig installed, then edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagal Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 I tried editing both files one at a time, followed by restarting X but it didn't work. Thanks for the help mezz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 is there a way to just point to all the fonts in the windows directory instead of copying all of them to the linux drive?e.g: I have my fonts in /mnt/c/windows/Fonts, and I'd love to find a way to just point to that folder and get them working in linux. Well, have you tried it yet? It won't hurt to add a line in the XF86Config(-4) and see what happen. I have no clue what you mean man... Add "/mnt/blah/to/the/windows/fonts" in the XF86Config(-4) if you already have the automatic mount the Windows. I don't know if it will work, so I said that it won't hurt to try it. If you have RedHat 8 or Xft2/Fontconfig installed, then edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf too. That won't work, mezz! I tried that in Mandrake 9.0 and no extra fonts were added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotix Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 That won't work, mezz! I tried that in Mandrake 9.0 and no extra fonts were added. Try this page: http://gongolo.usr.dsi.unimi.it/~vigna/webFonts4Linux/ Run the webFonts.sh script on the command line. It's pretty much all automated. It's how I got everything working on Mandrake 9 without Windows installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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