Still Newbie After All These Years

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:25 am

Or..I'm just a big "micro"-softie -ho! ho!, stop me before I kill again.

For the slight chance that I'm the only goober here that doesn't know it, if your fonts look like crap in Linux (Firefox, etc) - you may need to download the MS True Type Fonts for your distro. I'd never really thought about it, but had noticed different distros looked great (fontwise) and others looked like crap.

I'm using Debian Etch now and experienced font crappage until Dave at Lotta Linux Links pointed me to the MSTT package http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/msttcorefonts. Unfortunately I didn't restart X before I didn't see a difference and went back and installed the TT Xconfig recommended package http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11 ... dfont-conf and then restarted X - so not sure if the last was essential - but, anywho, it works!

What a difference. This looks as good as XP now

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:50 am

I used to have a script to download the "msfonts" but now that they're the "webcore" fonts it needs updating. There's a PKGBUILD in the AUR though. I'm pretty sure that these are different fonts than you're talking about, but thay're sweet (and almost certainly non-free).

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:08 pm

Thanks Snarkout. As always you are a "font" of knowledge.

Looked into the webcore thing, probably common knowledge here but did find a killer quick tutorial on Linux and Fonts at - where else - The Linux Tutorial Project (actually just googled "webcore fonts" and found this
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/index.html there).

Seems to be pretty informative though.