[oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
BTW, OI may want to look into providing the Microsoft Web Fonts somehow, but you'd have to be careful putting them into your main pkg repo directly as the license terms do not allow redistributing for profit. I remember some Linux distros coming up with a variety of solutions for packaging them w

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
On 19 December 2010 16:42, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > BTW, OI may want to look into providing the Microsoft Web Fonts somehow, but > you'd have to be careful putting them into your main pkg repo directly as the > license terms do not allow redistributing for profit.   I remember some Linux > distro

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/19/10 10:44 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > On 19 December 2010 16:42, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: >> BTW, OI may want to look into providing the Microsoft Web Fonts somehow, but >> you'd have to be careful putting them into your main pkg repo directly as the >> license terms do not allow redi

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-20 Thread Sevan / Venture37
On 19 December 2010 18:57, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Hiya, >> You don't need the microsoft fonts, there's the liberty fonts >> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ > > You already have those in OpenIndiana, but that's just a couple fonts > (basically replacements for Times, Helvetica, Couri

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/20/10 07:57 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > > What is the reason for bitmapped fonts not being disabled as in > upstream fontconfig and the big Linux distros? I didn't realize we were different than upstream. I believe the reason it's there is because the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) font

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

2010-12-20 Thread Guido Berhoerster
* Alan Coopersmith [2010-12-20 18:01]: > I didn't realize we were different than upstream. I believe the > reason it's there is because the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) > fonts often look much better in bitmaps than scaled, due to the > difficulty of well hinting 20,000+ glyphs, but would have