Re: [SLE] mozilla firebird fonts
From: James Philp (linuxjames2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/04/03
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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:04:50 -0700 (PDT) To: Henry Harpending <harpend@xmission.com>, suse-linux-e@suse.com
thanks. we seem to have made some progress. they look
better but are still rather smudged. some of the fonts
look ok (like the one in the yahoo mail i'm writing in
now) but basically anything else looks pretty smudgy.
any other ideas?
thanks, james.
--- Henry Harpending <harpend@xmission.com> wrote:
> Every time I install a new mozilla or firebird I
> remove the fonts
> directory from ~/.mozilla else I don't get
> anti-aliased fonts. When
> mozilla or firebird starts it recreates this
> directory.
>
> If you installed from Mr. Ogley's rpm then you
> should not need to do the
> following, but if you got firebird from the mozilla
> website you need to
> make two changes in [MozillaFirebird
> directory]/defaults/pref/unix.js
>
> First this line which, if you got the program from
> the Mozilla website,
> will have the default value "false" at the end:
>
> pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
>
> Then you need to add a line like this to the same
> file:
>
> pref("font.directory.truetype.1",
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype");
>
> where the directory is the location of your truetype
> fonts. You can
> have several such lines.
>
> HTH, Henry Harpending
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:43:33PM -0700, James
> Philp wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >Just installed MozillaFirebird and I quite like it
> -
> >one problem though - the fonts are absolutely awful
> >(jagged and unclear to read). Any suggestions or
> ideas
> >why this is so? Does anyone else have this issue?
> >
> >cheers, james.
> >
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