Grant wrote:
> I wanted to add to this that some fonts looks good and some do not.
>
>At cnn.com most of the fonts look bad, but the ones along the bar at
>the bottom (International Edition, CNN TV, Advertise With Us, About
>Us, etc.) are nice and smooth. I will try emerging without the
>bitmap-fonts USE flag and see how it goes.
>
>
Looks fine for me.
Have you tried playing with firefox's font dialog...I use:
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Proportional: Sans Serif Size 14
Serif: New Century Schoolbook
Sans-serif: sans-serif
Monospace: monospace Size 14
Display resolution: System setting Minimum font size: 9
...
Always use my: (x) Fonts ( ) Colors
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Here is some data from my system to compare against:
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carcharias root # emerge -v --pretend xorg-x11 mozilla-firefox corefonts
freefonts urw-fonts
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts
-cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc +font-server -hardened -insecure-drivers
+ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts
+type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB
[ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1 [1.0.1] -debug
-gnome +java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -xinerama
-xprint 31,992 kB
[ebuild R ] media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2 +X 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 +X 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.1-r2 +X 0 kB
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Notice that I built with bitmap fonts as well. I use xfs (xfontserver),
so my font path in xorg.conf is:
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FontPath "unix/:-1"
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My /etc/x11/fs/config file contains:
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#
# X Font Server configuration file
#
# allow a max of 4 clients to connect to this font server
#client-limit = 4
# no tcp, use sockets!
no-listen = tcp
# when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
clone-self = on
# alternate font servers for clients to use
#alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102
# where to look for fonts
# Some of these are commented out, i.e. the TrueType and Type1
# directories in /usr/share, because they aren't forced to be
# installed alongside X.
#
catalogue = /usr/share/fonts/75dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/share/fonts/CID,
/usr/share/fonts/util,
/usr/share/fonts/local,
/usr/share/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/share/fonts/truetype,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF,
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic,
/usr/share/fonts/freefont,
/usr/share/fonts/sharefont,
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western,
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts,
/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts
# in 12 points, decipoints
default-point-size = 120
# 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
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And finally, for anti-aliased fonts, my ~/.fonts.conf. Notice that I
use hinting for *all* font sizes, which looks best on my laptop LCD screen.
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?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
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