[CentOS] fonts on centos 4 and 5

[Mogens Kjaer]

Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am running centos 4.x and  5 x86_64 and using the script below and the 
> slider bar at the bottom
> I cannot get fonts bigger than 50.
> 
> someone  else posted a followup and said he has the same issue.
> What can be happening here??? xlsfonts shows that bigger fonts are 
> available.
> 
> How can I get bigger fonts???

What output do you get from:

xlsfonts|fgrep -i helvetica

Try a scalable font instead. E.g. replacing Helvetica with utopia made
your example work.

Mogens

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