Maybe the weirdest behavior ever

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:34:03 -0400, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
<eirik DeleteThis @opera.com> wrote:

> Yes, I can imagine that this could happen. Font support on linux is a
> one of our big problems. The main problem is that we have no idea how
> "good" a font is.

I've never run into squirrelly font behavior in an Opera upgrade, but I
have also noticed that fonts can be--er--variable on Linux. And a lot of
the open source fonts are, frankly, not all that great.

But I learned a trick for importing Windows *.TTF fonts into Linux which
have made my font configuration in Opera--and other Linux apps--much more
friendly.

The webpage that originally taught me how to do this is long gone, but
there is an updated version here:

http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/antialiasing_slack.php

This works like a charm in Slackware. I ported probably 80% of my TTF
fonts to the computer on which I type right now (some didn't make it, but
all my favorites did--I copied the entire contents of the Windows font
folder to my memory stick, but not all the contents had *.TTF files).

I'm guessing that, with some adjustments, it should probably work in other
distros.


Opera 9.61, Slackware Linux 12.1

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