Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:11:49 -0600 From: Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Tore Lund <tl32@next.online.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine Message-ID: <49821B95.7090708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4982196B.9010308@next.online.no> References: <4982196B.9010308@next.online.no>
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Tore Lund wrote: > Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a > screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. > > I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE > with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported > fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile > that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. > I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. > > (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could > help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried > the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) > The rendering stuff is due to the font wine/firefox is using. I do have ff3 running with similar issues, but I'm sure there's some sort of documentation available to fix it. You're going to want an anti-aliased font, and probably an MS one for greatest compatibility. I've also got flash 10 installed on it and the video is terrible. Hopefully flash 9 works better for you. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610
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