On 20 Dec, 2010,at 04:21 AM, Guido Berhoerster <g...@openindiana.org> wrote:
* Dave Koelmeyer <davekoelme...@me.com> [2010-12-19 14:13]: > Hi, > > I posted this over on OpenSolaris.org, but FWIW: > > This has always bugged me for as long as I can remember, and I > wonder if anyone knows why. > > Firefox 3.6.8 in Ubuntu: > > http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/Ubuntu1004Firefox368.png > > All headings and text are antialised, and page appears fine. > > Now, compare with the same page in Firefox 3.6.12 on > OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana: > > http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/oi_147Firefox3612.png > > Most text elements by comparison are pretty jagged, but the headings > are particularly ugly. > > Interestingly, this is the same page, but zoomed in two increments: > > http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/oi_147Firefox3612-zoomed.png > > Note that main heading ("DATAZUUL") is now displaying with nicely > antialiased edges. > > All the above examples are on stock-standard installs of Firefox, > with fonts settings left at defaults. > > Any ideas? If you want to get completely rid of bitmaps font in applications that use fontconfig you can either enable /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf (which is what Ubuntu does) or put its contents in your ${HOME}/.fonts.conf. For details see fonts.conf(5)
Hi All, The workaround in comment 13 here did the trick: https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4605#c13 alanc also helpfully provided the following info: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=136192&tstart=0 As I understand it, the Opensolaris Extras repository is now closed to new users, so I wonder if the above workaround or something similar would be a useful thing to do to ensure a good-looking browsing experience out of the box? Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
