Ubuntu Linux - fun with fonts

Garrett Hylltun garrett at paraboliclogic.com
Thu Jun 15 16:46:06 EDT 2006


Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I may be repeating a well-known fact - even if that be so, it should bear repeating:
> 
> I recently authored a silly little stack for kids to type words into fields on one of my Macs; set the standard font size in the fields to 36 . . . nothing mind-blowing
> 
> popped them on my Ubuntu boxes up at the language school and experience a lovely case of shrinking fonts!!!!
> 
> I had to set the font (vera bitstream something-or-other) for each field - then the text size was restored:

And the fonts ain't pretty in Rev under linux either since there is no 
antialias support for fonts on Rev's linux gui library, err, at least 
this is true for 2.6.1 of Rev.  :-(

-Garrett



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