Date: 29 Jan 2003 14:37:59 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 Message-ID: <1043869079.67424.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301290032040.6869-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301290032040.6869-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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--=-rxXtiuN6CN6443K8uPID Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 00:38, John Bleichert wrote: > Hello All >=20 > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (whic= h=20 > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason=20 > there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the= =20 > ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and=20 > the fonts are fine with them. >=20 > Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something?= =20 > It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box... >=20 > I have these fonts installed: >=20 > XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 =09 > XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 =09 > XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 =09 > XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 > XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 =09 > XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 =09 > Xft-2.1 =09 > bitmap-fonts-1.0 =09 > fontconfig-2.1_2 =09 > freetype2-2.1.2 =09 > mozilla-fonts-1.0_1 =09 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This absolutely breaks Mozilla with Xft support. It's mentioned in the Makefile. I recommend installing x11-fonts/webfonts to give you nice set of TrueType fonts for Mozilla. And, of course, you need to remove this package. Joe > =09 >=20 > Pointers appreciated - never had this happen before - thanks! >=20 > JB >=20 > # John Bleichert=20 > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-rxXtiuN6CN6443K8uPID Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+OC2Xb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgzzAKCYd6IjLVWmTlgSlm+NiETYpPek/gCgja2F 5yXAZe7HAzUjdi/xgDUQlBM= =1l48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rxXtiuN6CN6443K8uPID-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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