Yuppy!!! Firefox fonts now look GREAT!!

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

I was searching and searching, and I found out how to solve our neverending problem! I updated the XML files and now it's working great! Have a look:

So, you'll have to download the new XML files and extract them into: /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/ - Also you need the Microsoft fonts.

Code:

su
tar xvjpf fontconfig.tbz -C /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/

Log out and relog into KDE, launch Firefox and enjoy!

antik · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:25 pm

Charles wrote:

I was searching and searching, and I found out how to solve our neverending problem! I updated the XML files and now it's working great! Have a look:

So, you'll have to download the new XML files and extract them into: /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/ - Also you need the Microsoft fonts.

Code:

su
tar -xvjpf nicefonts.tbz /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/

Log out and relog into KDE, launch Firefox and enjoy!

Yes it looks better and even kaffeine is using right font now. What is the difference?

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

I had to add more rules to msfonts-rules.conf

antik · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:48 pm

Charles wrote:

I had to add more rules to msfonts-rules.conf

Thank YOU very much Charles!

dracheflieger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:11 pm

Looks great Charles. Thank You!

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

You welcome

What a breeze... Next step is a Firefox 2.0 PBI with a working Flash plugin for Firefox and a KDE skin for Firefox all packed together

dracheflieger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:20 pm

You would be a GAWD if you could get Flash to work with it but I'm not holding my breath :lol:

I cuoldn't even get linux-firefox to run for the last several weeks (tries to load it multiple times and gives me an 'it's already running stoopit!' error but I see yesterday they updated most of the linux-* libs in their ongoing effort to get good compatibility with linux_base-fc. Maybe I'll try it again later this week.

Dingens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:41 pm

charles, you are my font god :!:

p.s.: my scribus is sharp now *yippie*

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

Dingens wrote:

p.s.: my scribus is sharp now *yippie*

Are you sure? This is not normal, and the Scribus devs would consider it a "bug" because publishing applications are not supposed to turn off antialiasing at any size, as position of characters is more important than screen visibility. Anyway

Here's the original thread with all replies from the Scribus devs: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/s ... 18539.html

Dingens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:32 pm

äähhhmmm

TerryP · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:38 pm

better late then never

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

Oh yes, you mean the interface, but could you take a screenshot of a document open in Scribus? It should be antialiased always.

Dingens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:16 pm

you destroy an illusion :cry:

bad charles!

Charles · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2005 12:20 pm **Posts:** 4258

But this is normal, this is maybe the only case that a program shouldn't use the fontconfig files, it's for printing media so pixel-precision and exact position of text is more important than screen readability. You should zoom text more if this hurts...

Adobe InDesign CS2 also uses antialiasing for any kind of text for more precision.

jefrat72 · **Joined:** Wed May 03, 2006 3:20 pm **Posts:** 43

Using Firefox with the new fonts (PCBSD 1.2) I'm getting a lot of messed up words.

What I mean is if I'm reading this forum, or a news article, or whatever has text some of the lines look squashed or maybe compressed down is a better description. Anyone else seeing this?

PC-BSD

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