>The intent of this standard configuration file is to be adequate for >most environments. If you have a reasonably normal environment and >have found problems with this configuration, they are probably >things that others will also want fixed. Please send any suggested >changes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that future releases can include >such changes.
The following solves my problems, though there might be a better solution. Essentially, web sites specify Helvetica which is only available as a bitmap font on my system. So, fontconfig serves it right up... Here is my posting to a Gentoo forum: After everything was looking good for me, Gnome 2 applications were anti-aliased and Mozilla/Galeon web pages were anti-aliased, I found Mozilla/Galeon displaying some fonts really poorly. I diagnosed that I had a problem with bitmap fonts being available by using using the Font control panel: Applications > Desktop Preferences > Font > Application font. Some of the choices, like Helvetica, looked awful. Turns out, Helvetica is only available as a bitmap font. My fix is to disable access to bitmap fonts for fontconfig: One of the default directories for fonts in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> This ends up including nasty bitmap fonts. Change the line to: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> Restart applications to see that Helvetica is no longer available. Applications should choose a nice alternative such as Arial. Finally, with subpixel smoothing, I found that enabling the FreeType option USE="smooth", which is off default, produced characters that were smooshed together. So, if you've enabled it, get rid of it and re-emerge freetype. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
