On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 00:38, John Bleichert wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which 
> is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason 
> there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the 
> ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and 
> the fonts are fine with them.
> 
> Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? 
> It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box...
> 
> I have these fonts installed:
> 
> XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0      
> XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0       
> XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4  
> XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0
> XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0   
> XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0    
> Xft-2.1                       
> bitmap-fonts-1.0              
> fontconfig-2.1_2              
> freetype2-2.1.2               
> mozilla-fonts-1.0_1   
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This absolutely breaks Mozilla with Xft support.  It's mentioned in the
Makefile.  I recommend installing x11-fonts/webfonts to give you nice
set of TrueType fonts for Mozilla.  And, of course, you need to remove
this package.

Joe


>       
> 
> Pointers appreciated - never had this happen before - thanks!
> 
> JB
> 
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