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 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

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Hi everyone,

Just installed MozillaFirebird and I quite like it

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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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I am certainly no expert, but my experience is that Ogley's rpms, from http://usr-local-bin.org, always work. There are many other updates to gnome packages there. Re font quality, if you are using either KDE or GNOME there is a font setting GUI where you can specify the kind of antialiasing that is done. I do not know myself what the options do, and I have not experimented with them, but you might try playing with that. Henry Harpending On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 06:20:58PM -0700, James Philp wrote:

Hello again,

So I had another idea and installed one of the rpm's I found on the net with all fonts enabled and all that. great viewing but unfortunately half of it doesn't work ie can't type addresses in the bar, can't type login into forms.

does anyone know of an rpm for suse that actually works??

thanks, james. --- Henry Harpending wrote:

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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

...

Hi everyone,

Just installed MozillaFirebird and I quite like it

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:43:33PM -0700, James Philp wrote: -

...

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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** Reply to message from Henry Harpending on Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:56:20 -0600 Best luck I have had was following instructions at: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/ Download and install msfonts and msfonts-styles. Symlink their two directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msfonts/ and .../msfonts-style/. Stop antialiasing. No need to reboot. All msfonts are available immediately and they do look good. He tells you how to set them up in KDE Konqueror, Mozilla, Netscape, etc. Ed Harrison