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From: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello,

There is a howto:

XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO
http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/

Also consider setting minimum font size in Mozilla font preferences.

(And this question should have been sent to the ports list, not here on
current.)

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:09:41PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I compiled XFree86/4.3.1 and installed mozilla 1.4 as package
> and when I start mozilla fonts show up unevenly weighted (rounding
> problems?)
> 
> I wonder if this is a problem with the installed fonts themselves, 
> or with X11?
> 
> XF86Config looks like this (regarding fontpath):
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
>     RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> #    FontPath   "unix/:-1"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"   
>     FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection  
> 
> I read somewhere of antialiasing can be switched on or of
> but I forgot whether it was with X11, mozilla or NVIDIA driver
> compilation.
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
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-- 
Anders.