Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:18:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Angelin Lalev <lalev@sv-bg.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox, TrueType, Windows Fonts Message-ID: <20060531211851.GA97883@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060601001207.4eef20fd@fence> References: <20060601001207.4eef20fd@fence>
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In the last episode (Jun 01), Angelin Lalev said: > I'm not certain to even ask the right question here, but here I go. > > Apparently, there are certain web pages that require specifically > Arial and look like sh*th on Firefox. Since there is no Arial on > FreeBSD and since I'm aware of the copyright and patent issues which > prevent copying and displaying (correctly) Arial and other TTF fonts > from Windows boxes, I was wandering is there a way to make firefox > choose Helvetica instead of Arial and say Times New Roman instead of > Tahoma and so on ... The Fonts dialog on Firefox seem to only > address the choice of default Serif, Sans-Serif and Monospace fonts. Freetype2's auto-hinter (which does not infringe on any patents) should be able to display Arial from the x11-fonts/webfonts port just fine. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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