At 11:20 AM 7/24/01 +0000, KS wrote:

FreeType library that comes with XFree86 and renders TrueType fonts, does have support for anti-aliasing. But surprisingly the feature is turned off by default. You can turn it on by defining ANTI_ALIASING in appropriate file, probably in X11R6/xc/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.h file.

But this will mean recompiling the X system? I dont think I have the sources for it.

Use acroread for viewwing pdf file instead of xpdf. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

I tried gv - it opens pdf files too. It also has an antialiasing option, which when enabled, renders the text quite OK. But the problem is gv is not terribly UF.

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I had tried this before but without success.

(2) $ ttmkfdir > fonts.scale

I dont have ttmkfdir. I have mkttfdir ;) And it writes to the fonts.dir file directly. I have to use the -d (force output to stdout) option and then redirect it to the file fonts.scale.

(3) $ mkfontdir

This reads the fonts.scale file and reproduces an exact copy in the fonts.dir.

(4) $ xset fp+ `pwd`

this gives me error #37 bad font path element : possible reasons - directory does not exist or has wrong permissions directory missing fonts.dir incorrect font server address or syntax.

Of these the first two I checked and they seemed to be OK.

(5) $ xset fp rehash (6) Use 'xlsfonts' to verify that fonts are now there in the current font path

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