Fighting Font Frustration
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By Steve Coile
As a heavy user of Netscape Navigator under Red Hat Linux, I find myself frequently frustrated with the problems experienced visiting overly-fancy Web page designs and Web pages designed only for Microsoft Windows users related, often because of problems rendering fonts. Unfortunately, these problems occur frequently. On the up-side, I’ve managed to find ways to alleviate them to an acceptable level. This article discusses several steps that can be taken to improve the Web browsing experience using Netscape Navaigator and Communicator under Red Hat Linux. Much of this material may also be applied to other variants of Linux and UNIX.
- Part 1: [Netsca…
Fighting Font Frustration
Table of Contents
By Steve Coile
As a heavy user of Netscape Navigator under Red Hat Linux, I find myself frequently frustrated with the problems experienced visiting overly-fancy Web page designs and Web pages designed only for Microsoft Windows users related, often because of problems rendering fonts. Unfortunately, these problems occur frequently. On the up-side, I’ve managed to find ways to alleviate them to an acceptable level. This article discusses several steps that can be taken to improve the Web browsing experience using Netscape Navaigator and Communicator under Red Hat Linux. Much of this material may also be applied to other variants of Linux and UNIX.
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Part 1: Netscape
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Part 2: X Font Scaling
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Part 3: X Compatibility Fonts
Copyright 2000 by Red Hat, Inc. and Steve Coile.