Aliased fonts in Mozilla and Firebird
As a recent convert from RedHat 9, I'm stumped with this aliased font problem. If I install Mozilla (1.4) from the SuSE 9 CD's, all the fonts are anti-aliased and everything looks great. If, however, I install the binary (1.5) I just downloaded from Mozilla.org, all the fonts look horrible and completely aliased. Same goes for Firebird. Is there something I can do to fix this easily? Thanks, Mike
On Monday 08 December 2003 15:11, Mike Evans wrote:
As a recent convert from RedHat 9, I'm stumped with this aliased font problem. If I install Mozilla (1.4) from the SuSE 9 CD's, all the fonts are anti-aliased and everything looks great. If, however, I install the binary (1.5) I just downloaded from Mozilla.org, all the fonts look horrible and completely aliased. Same goes for Firebird.
Is there something I can do to fix this easily?
I was about to tell you that had to go to mozilla_directory/defaults/prefs/unix.js and change the first and last lines in this block: pref("font.FreeType2.enable", false); pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in // it is best to leave hinting off pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true); // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results pref("font.antialias.min", 10); pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000); pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64); pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8"); // sample prefs for TrueType font dirs //pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/u/sam/tt_font1"); //pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/u/sam/tt_font2"); //pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/u/sam/tt_font3"); changing "false" to "true" in the first line, uncommenting the last line, and putting in your truetype font directory like "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on? Henry Harpending
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:46, Henry Harpending wrote: <snip>
changing "false" to "true" in the first line, uncommenting the last line, and putting in your truetype font directory like "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on?
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2. -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
* Scott Jones (scott@exti.net) [031208 18:13]:
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:46, Henry Harpending wrote:
<snip>
changing "false" to "true" in the first line, uncommenting the last line, and putting in your truetype font directory like "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on?
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2.
Get the Firebird 0.7 rpm from the packman site. It works great and uses GTK2 and xft. You also might concider using the gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- Why do we bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? " Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."
On Monday 08 December 2003 20:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Scott Jones (scott@exti.net) [031208 18:13]:
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:46, Henry Harpending wrote:
but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on?
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2.
Get the Firebird 0.7 rpm from the packman site. It works great and uses GTK2 and xft. You also might concider using the
Packman is still at 0.6.1. For that matter, SuSE's build has been AWOL from the ftp server for some time.
gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer.
gnome-settings-daemon? How... quaint. <#include appropriate-smiley.h> -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:07, Scott Jones wrote:
On Monday 08 December 2003 20:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Scott Jones (scott@exti.net) [031208 18:13]:
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:46, Henry Harpending wrote:
but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on?
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2.
Get the Firebird 0.7 rpm from the packman site. It works great and uses GTK2 and xft. You also might concider using the
Packman is still at 0.6.1. For that matter, SuSE's build has been AWOL from the ftp server for some time.
gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer.
OK, I can't find gnome-settings-daemon on my CDs or DVD. Is it part of a package? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
* Jim Sabatke (jsabatke@execpc.com) [031209 08:08]:
gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer.
OK, I can't find gnome-settings-daemon on my CDs or DVD. Is it part of a package?
It's part of the control-center2 pkg for Gnome2. I happen to be using the usr-local-bin pkgs so this file for me is found in.. control-center2-2.2.2-SuSE.ulb.1 But you should have a control-center2 pkg on the CD's of the SUSE version your using. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- Why do we bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? " Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:04, Jim Sabatke wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:07, Scott Jones wrote:
On Monday 08 December 2003 20:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote: Packman is still at 0.6.1. For that matter, SuSE's build has been AWOL from the ftp server for some time.
gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer.
OK, I can't find gnome-settings-daemon on my CDs or DVD. Is it part of a package?
Try "pin". gnome-settings-daemon is part of the control-center2 package. -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:04, Jim Sabatke wrote:
OK, I can't find gnome-settings-daemon on my CDs or DVD. Is it part of a package?
On my SuSE 9.0 Professional system: gapinski@gr7700010223:~> whereis gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon: /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-settings-daemon gapinski@gr7700010223:~> rpm -qf /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-settings-daemon control-center2-2.2.2-93 gapinski@gr7700010223:~>
Scott Jones wrote:
On Monday 08 December 2003 20:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Scott Jones (scott@exti.net) [031208 18:13]:
On Monday 08 December 2003 17:46, Henry Harpending wrote:
but I just discovered that I had forgotten to do that and I still have nicely antialiased fonts with Mozilla. Anyone know what is going on?
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2.
Get the Firebird 0.7 rpm from the packman site. It works great and uses GTK2 and xft. You also might concider using the
Packman is still at 0.6.1. For that matter, SuSE's build has been AWOL from the ftp server for some time.
gnome-settings-daemon to keep the theme correct and the fonts looking good. It doesn't take up many resources and makes Mozilla, Firebird and other GTK2 apps look much nicer.
gnome-settings-daemon? How... quaint. <#include appropriate-smiley.h>
If anyone using an Athlon and wants the most up-to-date daily gtk2+xft builds of both Firebird and Thunderbird then go to- http://pryan.org/firebird/yek/ for FB, and http://pryan.org/thunderbird/yek for TB. I have been using the above now for almost a week on a daily basis without a problem. I say this because I have a feeling that not only are they optimised for Athlon (whatever that means) but they are meant for the RH distro but work perfectly with SUSE (9.0). Cheers. -- Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds.
IIRC, the stock mozilla.org builds are built against GTK 1.x. SuSE uses GTK2.
Use James Ogley's build: http://www.usr-local-bin.org/mozilla.php Hans
Mike Evans
If I install Mozilla (1.4) from the SuSE 9 CD's, all the fonts are anti-aliased and everything looks great. If, however, I install the binary (1.5) I just downloaded from Mozilla.org, all the fonts look horrible and completely aliased.
Mozilla 1.5 RPMs compiled by SUSE can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/ (Mirrors are often faster). Anti-aliasing works there. -- A.M.
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