Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
Richard Kilgore wrote: Joao Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:a6mcd9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 ... These are not the fonts you should look for. If it's working, you'll see font names that are capitalized: like Microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1. Shot in the dark, but I run debian, and the libfreetype.so.6.2 that was installed didn't do the trick. I had to compile Freetype2 from src (I used http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.0.9.tar.bz2). Do you still get all truetype fonts rendered in bold? -- -Torgeir
Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
Kryptolus wrote: Joao Rodrigues wrote: I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 ... But they don't look anti-aliased :-( I'm using XFree86 4.2.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3. Joao Yes it works. Wait till blizzard's Xft patch is checked -- it kicks even more ass. You have to make sure the fonts you mentioned are actually selected. Just having them being listed is not enough. I have also the same problem here. I use the same TT fonts (Arial, Verdana, etc...) in mozilla and konqueror, but can not get them antialiazed in mozilla. I carrefully followed the instructions and modified the unix.js file, but no luck. Xfree86 4.2 Freetype 2.0.8 FreeBSD 4.5 Mozilla build 2002031207 Ciao Colin
Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
Joao Rodrigues wrote: I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 I tried the 0.9.9 download for linux, and the debug option mentioned in the instructions clearly indicate that truetype support was not enabled in 0.9.9 for linux. Then I donwloaded the nightly from the same date (march 11th), which stated truetype fonts was supported. It doesn't give too nice rendering yet though. I have been unable to get cleartype style subpixel antialiasing to work (will probably work with the Xft patch), and the fonts rendered by the freetype renderer looks much thicker than fonts rendered by the x font server (I use TT fonts from windows). -- -Torgeir
Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
Joao Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:a6mcd9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 ... These are not the fonts you should look for. If it's working, you'll see font names that are capitalized: like Microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1. Shot in the dark, but I run debian, and the libfreetype.so.6.2 that was installed didn't do the trick. I had to compile Freetype2 from src (I used http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.0.9.tar.bz2). - rick
Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 ... But they don't look anti-aliased :-( I'm using XFree86 4.2.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3. Joao
Re: Anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla Unix: does it really work?
Joao Rodrigues wrote: I was very happy to read that Mozilla 0.9.9 now supports True Type fonts as well as anti-aliasing. I thought that, finally, I would see Mozilla render fonts as elegantly as Konqueror. But, despite following the instructions carefully (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html) was unable to notice any improvement on how fonts look. I can see that some True Type fonts are available in the Preferences: microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1 microsoft-georgia-iso8859-1 ... But they don't look anti-aliased :-( I'm using XFree86 4.2.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3. Joao Yes it works. Wait till blizzard's Xft patch is checked -- it kicks even more ass. You have to make sure the fonts you mentioned are actually selected. Just having them being listed is not enough.
