Netscape Font

[Sandip Samanta_3]

Hi,
I am running Netscape 4.75 from HP server by Xwindow software . When I am accessing any site then font and size is changing. But when I am accessing netscape from my PC then it is showing fine. I have not see some webpage's label also. I understand it is happening only for resolution & font. How I can change it ?

[Thomas Kollig]

You can change the font behaviour of netscape in "Appearance -> fonts" in "Edit -> Preferences".

I don't know, if it will solve your problem. Just try,
Thomas

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

you'll still find that there will be some
web pages that'll display poorly because
windows fonts are usually coded into web pages.

You'll find that Times new roman doesn't exist
on an xlsfonts output!!
You might want to try to create it in a fonts.alias file, but it'd be easier to get the
ttf font and convert it with a font conversion
utility like bdftopcf and so on.

An example of well portable webpages is hp's.
You'll see that their stylesheets actually check what OS is reading the page and change
fonts accordingly. have a look at the html
source of hp.com

Later,
Bill

[Stanislav Markovic]

A good way around this problem is to use one of the True Type font servers for X, like xfstt. Or one of the X servers that have TTF support compiled in, although I suppose that might not be practical under HP-UX. It is not that difficult to set up, and the improvement in font rendering is really worth the trouble.

The steps to set it up TTF support include creating a directory for all your TrueType fonts, and then creating a fonts.dir file using ttmkfdir command. Then you will add this directory to your font path, or you will start a True Type font server on it and add something like unix/:7100 to your font path. xlsfonts will thereupon include your new fonts.

A good web resource for all TrueType matters is http://www.freetype.org. TrueType fonts can be downloaded from Microsoft.

-- Stanislav