Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:09:57 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with Bitstream Vera font install Message-ID: <20030515030957.GA817@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <1052966586.19086.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030515023451.GA28071@panix.com> <1052966586.19086.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:43:06PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 22:34, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: [...] > > 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 [...] > 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. Thanks, that did it. I had thought I was up to date with freetype, but obviously I wasn't. Thanks again. Jesse
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