[Ifeffit] SPAM score=47.4*** Fonts in document pods

[Carlo Segre]

Bruce:

Nice to know.  David and I are trying to figure out the font problem on 
his computer.  I plan to fix dependencies in my packages when I know what 
is necessary.

Carlo

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Bruce Ravel wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:28, Dave Baker wrote:
>> I'm running the following environment on Debian:
>>
>> Artemis 0.8.005 using linux, perl 5.008007, Tk 804.027, and Ifeffit 1.2.8
>>
>> When I open up any help/about documents from within Artemis or Athena I
>> am faced with a nearly unreadable font.  Strangely, the font is readable
>> for a short while (~1 second) before it switches to this other font.  
>> I've attached a screenshot.  I'm curious to know if anyone else
>> experiences this problem, and whether it's just a matter of installing
>> the correct fonts on my machine or if it's something less obvious.
>
> Dave,
>
> The flicker thing is the intended behavior.  The default font size used by the
> pod reader is much too small on all of my computers, so I automagically zoom
> in on the font.  Apparently there is something about the way fonts are set up
> on your machine that results in an illegible final choice for the fonts.
>
> Go to Settings -> Edit preferences, then General -> doc_zoom and make the
> value either bigger or smaller.  A value of 0 should certainly be ok, altough
> on my computer it's rather too small.
>
> B
>
>
>

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