Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:06:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, FreeBSD Current Users' list <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD's ports list <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mozilla-devel problems Message-ID: <3DB844CF.2DB18641@mindspring.com> References: <20021023142016.GA92544@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> <1035390571.336.24.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20021024151022.GA72779@tara.freenix.org>
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Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Joe Marcus Clarke: > > Okay, my -CURRENT machine is fine. As for the fonts, this is most > > likely due to the new Xft support. My fonts look pretty good. You > > might try installing the x11-fonts/webfonts port, then stick this file > > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, and see if things improve. Else, rebuild > > mozilla-devel with -DWITHOUT_XFT. > > If you have an idea, please have a look at the following two pictures. > You'll see the difference very fast... > > <http://people.freebsd.org/~roberto/mozilla-1.2b-CURRENT.gif>; > <http://people.freebsd.org/~roberto/mozilla-1.2b-STABLE.gif>; The font being used is obviously different. This looks similar to a well known problem that could occur with nominally proportional spacing fonts in X programs that incorrectly assumed monospacing for characters, and also on nominally fixed spacing fonts in X programs that assumed that the offset would never be zero, and so didn't bother doing the extra math on the font spacing based on the cell offsets (FWIW, some fonts have incomplete data in some fields, so if you use them blindly, rather than looking for the bad data, and then making your positioning decision on the character cell, rather than the character, you get effects like this). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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