On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:41:02PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> I tried installing msttcorefonts on the client, and the problem was 
> solved. I'm confused, however. The client is not running X, why should 
> it even care what fonts are installed there?

If I were from Sun, I'd probably say: "This is why we proposed STSF"
(http://stsf.sourceforge.net ) .

Anyway, it's called client-side rendering, because the X client is
resposible for the rendering.

> 
> Running Mozilla-firebird exhibited the same symptoms exactly. Is that a 
> Debian thing?

No. It's an Xft thing. Debian happens to use the Xft version of mozilla
(as it looks much better...)

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