Date: 14 May 2003 22:43:06 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with Bitstream Vera font install Message-ID: <1052966586.19086.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515023451.GA28071@panix.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 22:34, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > After advice received here about why my upgrade of Mozilla to 1.3 > was displaying lousy fonts, I recently read through the font > section of the Handbook and installed everything it recommended, > and turned on anti-aliasing with Xft. > > 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 > > . > s > c > i > l > a > t > a word in i > > (The slant isn't that severe, but it does render things > unreadable.) > > In other fonts, including for instance Bitstream Vera Sans, > this does not happen; italics just slants each individual > character on the baseline, like it's supposed to. > > Any ideas, aside from chucking it all and recompiling > Mozilla with WITHOUT_XFT=yes ? 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. Joe > > Thanks. > > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+wv66b2iPiv4Uz4cRAmTaAJ4iA/lf9bOFkkHpV6IND+DMkgDN1QCfXCWm WO18clwlN7h54LemZ8UPk7A= =ebIy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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