Quick question, someone knows the answer

[reitz]

I know that there is a way to fix the fonts in Linux so that the forums don't look like utter crap in Netscape. Can someone give me some pointers?

 

[Napalm381]

Edit->Preferences->Fonts. The crappy one that the forums use by default is fixed-width Courier. Change to something else and you should be much happier.

 

[reitz]

Thanks, that's a little better, but isn't there a way to add more fonts or something? It's at least readable now, but it still looks like crap.

 

[Soybomb]

go go a search for like true type at linuxnewbie.org and it will walk you through importing your true type fonts from windows.......or wait a bit and perhaps shux can walk you through it step by step

 

[reitz]

I already checked, and shux isn't on

 

[reitz]

Okay, this is what I found at linuxnewbie.org:

Some fonts on the internet look pretty messed up in Linux because most of the web pages out there were written for Windows users and Window's True Type Fonts (TTF) are not included with Linux, Gnome or KDE! Luckily, Redhat 5 and newer has a Font server that will allow you to use any true type fonts on your Linux PC. Copy whatever fonts you want on an off of a floppy, burned CD, over the network, whatever and do the following:

mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cp /path-of-fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
mkfontdir

Where the path-of-fonts is is of course where you copied your TTF files to. After this is done, go ahead and reboot.

I did that, but there was no change. What am I doing wrong?