[LBo] Ugly fonts in Webmail

Niki Kovacs contact at kikinovak.net
Wed Apr 18 18:31:06 CEST 2007


Hi,

This is only a minor problem, but I thought I might as well find a 
solution.

I took great pains to install fonts from an existing Windows XP install 
(free as in beer :) ). Simply copied over all .ttf files to 
/usr/share/fonts/ms-cannibalized and then ran fc-cache -f -v.

Now there seems to be one TTF font missing, and I *think* it's 
Helvetica. I have all my mail on an IMAP server, and depending on the 
machine I'm on (I'm often switching machines in my job), I'm using 
Thunderbird or Evolution to access my mail... or, sometimes a webmail 
access. Now on this interface fonts are not very pretty. Just take a 
look: http://www.kikinovak.net/screenshots/uglyfonts.png

Any idea about the missing font? Helvetica? Any idea how I could either 
get that (seems non-free) or maybe replace it in Firefox by some free 
font that does the job as well?

Cheers,

Niki


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