Mozilla Text Resolution

[Stephen Andert]

I'm reading in digest mode, and I've been busy so this got put on the back 
burner so I'm responding to several ideas at one time.

1. Regarding upgrading to Red Hat 8 or 9.
I've tried RH8 on two different machines and wasn't been able to get X 
running on either.  RH7 worked without any problem and when I did 7.3 as a 
new install, it worked fine.  It seems like support for some hardware was 
dropped.  If anyone has any ideas for overcoming this problem, I'd be happy 
to try a newer version.

2. Regarding different fonts.
I feel stupid for overlooking this idea.  A friend at work recommended using 
a different font which I tried and is much better.  Probably made enough of 
a difference that I won't need to do anything else right now.

Thanks to all for your help.
Stephen

>On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:08, Stephen Andert wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've gotten half of my home network moved to Linux.  This means that we 
>are
> > using webmail interface for some of our e-mail accounts.  Text 
>resolution in
> > things like Mozilla and Netscape is pretty bad.  I've tried different 
>screen
> > resolutions and that makes it a bit better, but there must be some fonts
> > that I could load or configure differently to make things more legible.  
>Can
> > anyone point me towards the file/files or configuration tools to make 
>this
> > better?
> > The Linux machines are RedHat 7.3.
> > TIA
> > Stephen
>
>I would recommend two things:
>
>1) Upgrade your distribution to something with anti-aliasing, it helps
>more than you'd think.  Both RedHat 8 and RedHat 9 have anti-aliasing.
>
>2) Get some better fonts.  There are two routes to go with this.
>Microsoft has released some 'web-fonts' that are pretty nice, but the
>license is not bad, but not perfect.
>
>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/webfonts-1-3.noarch.html
>
>A more 'open' (and thus I believe it is better) approach is to use the
>fonts that have been donated recently by bitstream.  I don't know of any
>distribution has them in it yet.  Here's the link:
>
>http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
>
>		Have fun,
>			Ted
>
>
>The fonts in Red Hat 8 and 9 are WAY better than 7.3.  Unless you have a
>reason to stay with 7.3, and there are valid reasons in some cases, I would
>suggest that you do an update to a newer version and be done with it.
>
>Alan

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