[LBo] Ugly fonts in Webmail

[Stefan Waidele]

Niki Kovacs schrieb:
> 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.

This will copy all fonts - free as beer, free as speech, or closed. So
that distinction should not cause the problem.

> Now there seems to be one TTF font missing, and I *think* it's
> Helvetica.

Helvetica is not a windows-font. You need to get it from another source.
MS included "Arial" as a substitute.

> 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.

And you installed all fonts on all computers? The client computers, that
is? (Beofre you answer on-list, be awayre of the fact that fonts are
copyrighted and licensed like computer-programs!)

> 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?

You should check the page's html-source to find out what fonts are being
used. And also the CSS. That should help.

> 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?

It might be even that on the "ugly-machine" there is an additional ugly
sans-serif font installed which gets picked by the browser to display
text. Since font-names are not "carved in stone" on the web, that might
be it. (BTW, have you installed the MS-webfonts-package of your distro?)

Very vage subject - very vage answer
Sorry,

Stefan

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