On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:19:50 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 23:51:00 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Is there any way to override 'Times' and 'Helvetica' with fonts of > > my choice when Firefox tries to print 'Times' or 'Helvetica', > > without overriding fonts selections for every site. > > It used to be possible to influence Mozilla's font selection with the > font.x11.rejectfontpattern setting: > > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs Well that probably works, but I followed some links and ended up with the information I needed to disable the use of X11 screen fonts that are bitmapped (like Helvetica and Times) and thus scale badly (since by default scaling is used) By doing cd /etc/fonts/conf.d sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf one achieves the goal of excluding bitmap fonts, which is good because they don't scale when you try to print. I'm not sure why this isn't done by default. Please CC me; I am not subscribed to the list. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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