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Procedure for getting fonts to work right for StarOffice on Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 4, 1999

Zubin Dittia
writes:

I noticed that fonts were looking blotchy and ugly when I used
StarOffice under RH 6.0. This is because the XFree86 X server does
not support TrueType fonts yet. But there is a fix; I wrote up a
small piece describing the procedure I used; you can find it
on:

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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