Re: [Cooker] Re: Mozilla and fonts
from the quill of Pablo Saratxaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 09:30:19AM -0800, Brian J. Murrell wrote: OK. That all seems to work. Shouldn't the XFree86-3.3.6 package have/do all that then? Yes; and next one will do. Before we put this to bed, people should note that for the time being there appears to be a bug even with the most recent Mozilla snapshots in that even if the mdk fonts are marked as unscaled to the font server and even if they are at the end of the font path, they still seem to be chosen by Mozilla in preference to the adobe or urw helvetica fonts. This is obviously not good and I have brought it to the attention of erik over at netscape. I am awaiting word on what he wants to do about it. I expect (hope?) to bundle up the mdk fonts for him so he can test. So if you want to use Mozilla, and want to get the most out of it as far as font rendering, you will have to remove the mdk fonts completely from the font server until the bug is fixed. I will report here when/if I know something more from netscape. b. -- Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc. North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
Re: [Cooker] Re: Mozilla and fonts
Kaixo! On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 12:44:37AM -0800, Brian J. Murrell wrote: Before we put this to bed, people should note that for the time being there appears to be a bug even with the most recent Mozilla snapshots in that even if the mdk fonts are marked as unscaled to the font server and even if they are at the end of the font path, they still seem to be chosen by Mozilla in preference to the adobe or urw helvetica fonts. This is obviously not good and I have brought it to the attention of erik over at netscape. I am awaiting word on what he wants to do about it. I expect (hope?) to bundle up the mdk fonts for him so he can test. So if you want to use Mozilla, and want to get the most out of it as far as font rendering, you will have to remove the mdk fonts completely from the font server until the bug is fixed. I will report here when/if I know something more from netscape. You should only remove the *-iso8859-1 font; the other fonts (which use other encodings) shouldn't be called by Mozilla (unless you display some thai, vietnalmese, arabic, etc web page of course). If mozilla uses a non iso8859-1 font to display iso-8869-1 pages then there is indeed a big problem with mozilla. b. -- Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc. North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD -- Ki a vos vye bn, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
Re: [Cooker] Re: Mozilla and fonts
Kaixo! On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:06:48PM -0800, Brian J. Murrell wrote: The problem is the mdk-helvetica fonts. Get rid of them in your xfs config file and mozilla will look real pertty! Or check that the directory of those fonts has :unscaled at the end of it. So they will be used only for the exact size asked. And also put that directory at the end of the fontpath. I know they aren't that nice, I'm far from being a font artist; however they are under GPL, if someone can improve them, he is welcome. The main goal was to have at least one font for each encoding. -- Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc. North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD -- Ki a vos vye bn, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
