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- From: aardvark@nt1l.krl.com (Donald Koch)
- Subject: Re: strange ordering of fonts in the R5 font server...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.130745@nt1l.krl.com>
- Keywords: font server
- Sender: aardvark@nt1l (Donald Koch)
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- Organization: Koch Research Labs
- References: <1992Sep7.061956.2735@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Sep7.161805@nt1l.krl.com> <1992Sep9.071607.3471@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:07:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.071607.3471@cs.ucla.edu>, william@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng) writes:
- [...reported font ordering problem...]
- > I tried the -u option, and got the following result:
- >
- > -bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--18-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
- > -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-0-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1
- > -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1
- > -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-0-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
- >
- > The 75dpi (good) fonts still appear in the middle! Any clues?
-
- This is probably because you have Speedo in front of 75dpi in your font
- path, which is where the bitstream-courier fonts are. See what xset -q reports.
- You can always force the "good" fonts to be chosen by stuffing adobe in the
- second field.
-
- --
- Don Koch
- aardvark@nt1l.krl.com
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