Re: problem we should address

[Birger Langkjer <birger.langkjer@image.dk>]

Dean Plude wrote:
> 
> I have been conducting some test with third party people who know
> nothing about GNU/Linux
> and have come up with the following problem
> 
> 1.Font sizes are not ajustable in mail documents with all the default
> programs
> 
> This is going to be an important issue among users who have  poor
> eyesight and we should try to come up
> with a way or mabe a patch for a program to force the mail document font
> to be a larger size for that large number of people to set up and all
> others not to .

Well I got this tip for altering XF86Config at 
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
:
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath    "unix/:7100"

Putting unscaled 100dpi in front of the others helped
a lot in some programs (like nedit). 
Fonts are a moth point under XFree86 3.3.*, I agree.
The last line is ofcourse xfstt -truetype server

Try to start X like this:
startx -dpi 100

best regards
-- 
Birger Langkjer
http://members.xoom.com/langkjer/