weird fonts

[sallam]

greetings

how do I add MS fonts?

 

and will doing so affect the speed of my computer?

I know in ms windows installing more fonts slows down the computer, specially old ones (mine is only amd athlon 700).

 

btw, i need to do so beause I'm viewing the text displayed in a weird way in webpages, hat i used to see perfectly fine from windows. I tried changing the fonts in linux firefox, but nothing happened! still weird, tiny elongated letters.

 

 

[topics moved from Software & Installing Mandriva and merged by spinynorman]

[solarian]

which webpages? most likely the fault is somewhere else (you don't really need windows fonts, probably something else is screwed)

 

p.s. This topic should be in the Software section of the forum

[devries]

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...noarch.rpm.html

[sallam]

how can i make webpages display like it used to be in windows?

I was advised elsewhere to import MS fonts, i did that, but nothing changed

I went to firefox, preferences, fonts, but MS fonts that i imported are not there!!

(they are listed in MCC > fonts already, but not showing in firefox!)

 

I still see tiny weird font in webpages, hardly able to view them... please help me.

[devries]

Can you make a screenshot (start -> multimedia -> graphics -> ksnapshot) and post a link of the page you're viewing?

[sallam]

here is a google search page.

I'm not used to that tiny wierd font

[solarian]

Try setting the minimal font size in preferences to something you enjoy more.

Tell if it helps.

[solarian]

p.s. Try changing your desktop a bit. The default look is not nice.

See some screenshots here at Art n Design for some ideas.

[sallam]

thanks.

btw, while installing firefox 1.06, i got this in the terminal window:

"(firefox-installer-bin:26503): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed topango_layout_set_text()

 

(firefox-installer-bin:26503): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed topango_layout_set_text()

 

(firefox-installer-bin:26503): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed topango_layout_set_text()

 

(firefox-installer-bin:26503): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed topango_layout_set_text()"

 

is that why I'm having problems with webpage fonts?

[devries]

These fonts look ok to me. Just a little small. Make the defaults a bit bigger and you're fine.

 

Error: I doubt it. Probably just some autodetect script that doesn't work. Nothing to do with rendering of webpages.

[scarecrow]

The fonts above are smallish, but correctly rendered. Simply press the left control key and roll your mouse wheel 1-2 clicks down to enlarge them...

[iphitus]

Aye, just remember, if it's a WARNING in linux, 99% of the time, you're OK, it's all good, and nothing to worry about, especially with GTK programs, they love to be verbose.

 

It's when you get ERRORs that you have to worry about it...