Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote > >>I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. >>It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font >>and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge >>spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to >>be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic >>mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 > > > Problem > ======= > I had the exact same problem in Firefox. What's happening is that you > are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S* > fonts, so what you do has no effect. > > Solution > ======== > The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different. In Firefox, it > was as follows... > > Edit > Preferences > General > Fonts & Colors > > Near the bottom of the "Fonts & Colors" tab, check the option... > Always use my: [X] Fonts > > Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect. >
Actually, the solution for me was to get rid of the mozilla-bin port and compile it from scratch. Evidently mozilla-bin has some integration problems with Xorg, etc. Then it doesn't matter what that "Allow documents to use other fonts" setting is. My test web page was www.msnbc.com. Mozilla-bin totally barfs on this page, whereas the compiled version renders everything correctly. I only have one problem left. Windowmaker starts up (when I am just a regular user) then aborts because it can't find one of the TrueType fonts. That font directory is set in xorg.conf, but I am afraid the problem is in the /etc/fonts directory. I just don't have enough experience working with those config files to get TrueType fonts set up right. But I have made good progress! I am happy about that. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
