Rapidweather
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Posted: Oct. 14 2004,01:59 |
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Well, I have wound up with a 80 MB + remaster, based on my additions of all of
the Redhat 9 fonts I could locate into my filesystem.
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I'm using 100 dpi fonts, and that has some difficulties, but overall, it is what I am
going with.
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I get fairly nice results in Gimp, but not good enough when I design web graphics
such as found at the top of my page here, done using Gimp on Mandrake 8:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/web.html
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The same graphics done using my remaster still have some ragged edges, so,
"close, but no cigar."
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Here are the font directories from Redhat 9 that I used in my master copy:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/etc/fonts
/usr/share/fonts
That is a lot of fonts, and I edited my /etc/X11/XF86Config to show the
paths to them. I also fixed the catalog line in /etc/X11/fs/config to show
them. I am up to "Beta 9" on my remaster of DSL 0.8.2, and I need to
go ahead and make the next Beta to show these two files as matching
perfectly, I have not yet done that, although the "master" has the changes
done. It's a long shot, but maybe that will do the trick as far as Gimp is
concerned, but I doubt it. There is always more to it than that. I looked at
http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/
when I saw your post, and I'm not up to designing my own setup, other than
the apparently "quick and dirty" method I am trying out.
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The results for Opera 6.03 have been very satisfactory, over when I got when
I added Opera and got it working normally, with only the stock DSL 0.8.2 fonts in place. Penalty, however, is the size of the remaster, over 80 MB.
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One little problem I had with /etc/X11/fs/config is the "default-point-size" line.
It's set at 120. I tried to change it to 100, remastered again, and didn't see any changes anywhere.
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Since I do have remasters that have no additional fonts other than the stock DSL 0.8.2 fonts, I thought I could download the Opera extension, save it on my pen drive, or HDD partition, and try it out. I believe that I saw some reference to fonts in the "info" on the mydsl repository for Opera:
Change-log: 08/13/2004 - First version
08/20/2004 - Bsetroot needs libXft.so.1
08/21/2004 - substituted libXft.so.1.1 - still bad fonts
08/24/2004 - Added libXft.so.2.1.1 - 
08/25/2004 - Made into .tar.gz
Maybe that is all I really need, rather than a massive dump of fonts
copied from my Redhat 9 partition, which is essentially what I have done.
When the Opera extension is up and running, I'll also try out Gimp again, and
see if the addition of libXft.so.2.2.1 helps. It just might, and I may dig that up
out of Redhat and drop it into my remaster. Can't hurt, and since I already have
a big size to it, one more won't matter. I can drop back to stock DSL fonts also, and make a remaster of that with libXft.so.2.2.1, and see what happens.
Apparently, that is what cbagger01 did when he made the Opera extension, so
it's worth trying. I use several partitions for remastering, so I can do that.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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