Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:58:32 +0100 From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poor default fonts in Firefox Message-ID: <20180107155832.GA84935@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> In-Reply-To: <20171227174525.cc1e9047.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <slrnp47hdu.189a.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <20171227174525.cc1e9047.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon: > > You install a new FreeBSD machine with a graphics display, install > > the xorg and firefox ports on it, all default options, start browsing > > the web... and you see that some sites (e.g. http://www.bbc.com/news) > > are presented with pixelated fonts like something out of the 1990s. > > > > What do you do? > > You install the recommended font packages. :-) Well, there is no such recommendation. > > My personal solution for the last few years has been to pinch > > OpenBSD's etc/fonts/conf.avail/31-nonmst.conf file... > > This isn't needed as soon as the webfonts package has > been installed. And even the DejaVu fonts need to be > installed manually, if I remember correctly. No, Deja Vu is a standard dependency: x11/xorg -> x11-fonts/xorg-fonts -> x11-fonts/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype -> x11-fonts/dejavu Installing webfonts does NOT fix the problem. fc-match shows that popular font names like "Helvetica" and "Times" are still mapped to the same bitmap fonts as before and that's what you still get in Firefox. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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