On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:23:30PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > On 4/7/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems like the recent font patches have > > caused trouble in both Firefox. > > In Firefox, I have to install corefonts for > > text to be legible at all lately. > > Is this expected? > > I should mention that there's some chance a change > in my build environment caused this. > I recently switched from FC3 to Dapper Flight 6. > Also, I'd been running with corefonts installed on FC3 > for a while, so who knows when this happened, > if it's real. > > The symptom is that without core fonts, text in firefox > looks really thin; it's the right size and shape, but > the strokes are so thin as to be hard to see.
Hi Dan, I suspect it's not a recent regression, most of the recent font changes haven't changed the font mapper. I am however going to be doing some work on the mapper soon, so hopefully things will improve. Huw.