From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 13: 9:10 2003 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 63B2337B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D35443FB8 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:09:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from mukappabeta.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E73A93E; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:09:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E3EDA6E.4010005@mukappabeta.de> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:09:02 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030131 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fonts in Mozilla References: <868ywxp2we.fsf@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <868ywxp2we.fsf@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Pascoe wrote: > I've just installed Mozilla from ports (mozilla-1.2.1_1,2) and the > fonts are AWEFUL! I've then installed most everything in > /usr/ports/x11-fonts and added them to my Fontpath. I have inquired about a similar problem these days and the solution I got was to disable the use of XFT when building mozilla, i.e., build it with "make install WITHOUT_XFT=yes". This will disable the anti-aliasing stuff altogether, restoring the appearance of Mozilla 1.1. The advantage will be that you don't get a headache after 15 minutes of using mozilla (the default anti-aliased fonts, even in the widgets and all, you'll get with the port build look like you were very shortsighted and took your glasses off, or at least that's how I imagine it.) The disadvantage is that even huge fonts in the webpage don't get smoothed. Joe Marcus Clarke also posted a different solution using fontconfig, by disabling anti-aliasing for fonts under a certain size. I didn't try that yet and can't comment on its usefulness. Check the mailing list archive for the postings. -- Matthias Buelow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message