ms fonts

sekelsenmat · 06-13-2005, 08:09 PM

I just installed ms_fonts package, and guess what? My Firefox shows all web pages as they should be!!! No more ugly interfaces / small and square fonts / broken fonts. I knew there should be a reason why my windows firefox showed much better looking pages then my linux one =P

I couldn't find this via urpmi, so here is the link:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_singl...HOWTO/#msfonts

http://rpm.borgnet.us/10.1/media/RPMS/noarch/

Just download the mandrake package and vuola. Description and instructions are on the How To.

This I can add to "Things that anyone using Mandriva should know". Together with "How to set up urpmi"

synaptical · 06-13-2005, 08:40 PM

have you tried the bitstream vera fonts? those are also really nice. i prefer them to the MS fonts.

sekelsenmat · 06-13-2005, 08:48 PM

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Originally posted by synaptical
have you tried the bitstream vera fonts? those are also really nice. i prefer them to the MS fonts.

Thanks for the hint! I started looking for fonts because my linux gui apps were getting ugly due to the weird fonts I was using. I think that I will use bitstream vera in my apps due to possible conflicts with Windows licensing with those fonts.

However, nothing better then those ms fonts for web sites / viewing ms office documents :^)

aerogate · 06-14-2005, 12:42 PM

Want them to look even better?

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/346_or/2.png (My desktop)

and how to do it :-

http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html
Just do part 2 (Step 2: Turn on FreeType native hinting) and that will improve the fonts considerably. You can do the other steps but I found they`re not really needed.