line spacing problem

[Eike Lantzsch]

Duane Clark wrote:
>  Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> > 
> > Duane Clark wrote:
> > >  Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> > > >
> > [...]
> > > >
> > > > This still happens with cvs010626 with a VB3 program designed
> > > > to work on NT4/W2k down to Win3.1.
> > > > In a text window the Helvetica font appears to have a normal body
> > > > height but the EmHeight is far taller. So the line spacing is
> > > > far too wide.
[...]
> > >
> > >  I have no idea whether there could be any possible relation. But I have
> > >  seen this same effect in the Netscape and Mozilla compose windows, if my
> > >  100dpi fonts were listed first in the xfs configuration, but the X
> > >  server was set for 75 dpi. This regardless of whether the compose window
> > >  was using a 100dpi font or a TT font. When I changed the X server to
> > >  tell it to use 100 dpi (or listed the 75 dpi font first in xfs), the
> > >  problem went away.
> > >
> > >  Duane
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > I'm running xfstt and the xserver is started from kdm (KDE). I should
> > have mentioned this in the first place.
[...]

Thank you for supplying the details. This helps already.
   
>  
>  I don't know where it is changed in KDM. By the way, this had no
>  apparent affect on anything except text font size.

I'm still wandering around in the config files. XF86_SVGA -dpi 100 yes
that's what I'm trying (or X if this is the link to the Xserver.)
SuSE and KDE is really complicated with their config files. 
I figured out about the runlevel scripts for a firewall before
and am now quite familiar with it, so I look forward to eventually 
finding it for X as well. It just takes some time :-P

>  
>  Just out of curiousity, do those lines you mention mean that you have a
>  TrueType Helvetica font? Did that come with your distribution, or is it
>  available somewhere (on the web) that I could get ahold of it?
>  
>  Duane

No, no TTF Helvetica, it is adobe-helvetica-xx
When the application wants TTF Arial wine gives it Adobe Helvetica.

Regards, Ike
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