On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 01:00, allen wrote: > > Mine looks great. > > What site(s) are you visiting ? > > ? > > -AEF > > > ----quoted text below---- > > fr3nd : 02/09 09:11 : Incident created Hello, > > I tried the latest beta of Mandrake, and i saw the mozilla > > had antialiased fonts. IMHO it looks bad and makes the > > websites difficult to read. Can you make this patch optional?
aef - please reply below, not above, quoted text. It makes reading simpler and easier. To be fair to the reporter - the antialiasing on Mandrake's default fonts, with the -mdk version of freetype2 and no hinting enabled, looks rather fuzzy. You might like to try these steps: Get a -plf version of freetype2, from http://plf.zarb.org , and install it. This is entirely legal since you live in Spain, where (to my knowledge) the patent issues relating to freetype don't apply. Use drakfont to import your Windows fonts into Mandrake, if you have a Windows installation, or install the Microsoft core fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net . Edit /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/defaults/pref/unix.js file. Change the block: pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true); To read: pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); Et voila, much nicer looking fonts. All this should of course be the default but isn't, thanks to stupid software patent laws. *sigh*. On a related note, the unix.js file is overridden every time a new Moz package comes out, which gets irritating. Any chance Moz preference files like this could follow the .rpmnew convention, or is that only for stuff in /etc? On *another* related note, when I do this on my desktop system, some fonts (mostly sans, both Arial and Verdana I think) in Mozilla come out looking bold all the time - this is very obvious when viewing, e.g., www.theregister.co.uk , where all the articles come up with all the text looking bold. On my laptop this issue doesn't present itself, with identical settings. I think I read something in a changelog, maybe XFree, about a similar problem for 1280x1024 displays being fixed, but my display is 1024x768...anyone know of a fix? -- adamw
