Grant wrote: > I wanted to add to this that some fonts looks good and some do not. > >At cnn.com most of the fonts look bad, but the ones along the bar at >the bottom (International Edition, CNN TV, Advertise With Us, About >Us, etc.) are nice and smooth. I will try emerging without the >bitmap-fonts USE flag and see how it goes. > > Looks fine for me.
Have you tried playing with firefox's font dialog...I use: ------------------------------------------------------------ Proportional: Sans Serif Size 14 Serif: New Century Schoolbook Sans-serif: sans-serif Monospace: monospace Size 14 Display resolution: System setting Minimum font size: 9 ... Always use my: (x) Fonts ( ) Colors ------------------------------------------------------------ Here is some data from my system to compare against: ------------------------------------------------------------ carcharias root # emerge -v --pretend xorg-x11 mozilla-firefox corefonts freefonts urw-fonts These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc +font-server -hardened -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1 [1.0.1] -debug -gnome +java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -xinerama -xprint 31,992 kB [ebuild R ] media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2 +X 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 +X 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.1-r2 +X 0 kB ------------------------------------------------------------ Notice that I built with bitmap fonts as well. I use xfs (xfontserver), so my font path in xorg.conf is: ------------------------------------------------------------ FontPath "unix/:-1" ------------------------------------------------------------ My /etc/x11/fs/config file contains: ------------------------------------------------------------ # # X Font Server configuration file # # allow a max of 4 clients to connect to this font server #client-limit = 4 # no tcp, use sockets! no-listen = tcp # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = on # alternate font servers for clients to use #alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102 # where to look for fonts # Some of these are commented out, i.e. the TrueType and Type1 # directories in /usr/share, because they aren't forced to be # installed alongside X. # catalogue = /usr/share/fonts/75dpi, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/Speedo, /usr/share/fonts/CID, /usr/share/fonts/util, /usr/share/fonts/local, /usr/share/fonts/Speedo, /usr/share/fonts/truetype, /usr/share/fonts/TTF, /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic, /usr/share/fonts/freefont, /usr/share/fonts/sharefont, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, /usr/share/fonts/corefonts, /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts # in 12 points, decipoints default-point-size = 120 # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 ------------------------------------------------------------ And finally, for anti-aliased fonts, my ~/.fonts.conf. Notice that I use hinting for *all* font sizes, which looks best on my laptop LCD screen. ------------------------------------------------------------ ?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintfull</const> </edit> </match> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> </fontconfig> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list