From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 19:43:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAE237B401 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE8E43F75 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 19:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4 [24.93.67.51])h4F2f7gs024826; Wed, 14 May 2003 22:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com ([66.57.17.158]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 14 May 2003 22:45:36 -0400 Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h4F2gkrT049218; Wed, 14 May 2003 22:42:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: creme-brulee.marcuscom.com: shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4] didn't use HELO protocol From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Jesse Sheidlower In-Reply-To: <20030515023451.GA28071@panix.com> References: <20030515023451.GA28071@panix.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-bSACShXbxKVqxd6dfJHg" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1052966586.19086.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.3 (Preview Release) Date: 14 May 2003 22:43:06 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-39.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: Problem with Bitstream Vera font install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:43:32 -0000 --=-bSACShXbxKVqxd6dfJHg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 22:34, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > After advice received here about why my upgrade of Mozilla to 1.3 > was displaying lousy fonts, I recently read through the font > section of the Handbook and installed everything it recommended, > and turned on anti-aliasing with Xft. >=20 > The results are worse than they were before, but perhaps > that's just a taste issue. In any case, the non-personal-taste > problem is that Bitstream Vera Serif (the Handbook-suggested > font to use for everything), when displayed by Mozilla in > italics, is slanted diagonally _upwards._ That is, each > character is raised, so a word in italics might look like >=20 > . > s=20 > c > i > l > a > t > a word in i >=20 > (The slant isn't that severe, but it does render things > unreadable.) >=20 > In other fonts, including for instance Bitstream Vera Sans, > this does not happen; italics just slants each individual > character on the baseline, like it's supposed to. >=20 > Any ideas, aside from chucking it all and recompiling > Mozilla with WITHOUT_XFT=3Dyes ? This used to be a problem with an old freetype2. Make sure Xft, fontconfig, and freetype2 are all up-to-date. I just verified the italic text at www.mozilla.org looks just fine with Bitstream Serif. Joe >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-bSACShXbxKVqxd6dfJHg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+wv66b2iPiv4Uz4cRAmTaAJ4iA/lf9bOFkkHpV6IND+DMkgDN1QCfXCWm WO18clwlN7h54LemZ8UPk7A= =ebIy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bSACShXbxKVqxd6dfJHg--