George Lefter wrote:
> hello.
> i would like very much to have freetype/antialiasing in mozilla.
> i've been watching bug 116147 on freetype, but it is almost a week since
> it was fixed and i see no difference.
>
> what i have done:
> installed XFree86 4.2.0.
> configured mozilla with --enable-freetype2
> (though i think now it defaults to enabled, as './configure --help'
> now shows just a --disable-freetype2 option)
>
> in prefs.js (option names taken from modules/libpref/src/unix/unix.js):
> user_pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
> user_pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF");
>
> also tried to play with autohinted/unhinted, and added fonts/Type1 as
> second truetype directory.
> am i doing something wrong?
>
>
> similar, there was a bug about tabs overflow, whose fix was to have only
> about 8 tabs at a time and to cycle betwen them. still, i do not see
> this fix in my cvs build (last cvs update was two days ago, on 24).
>
I just got it to work!
I had to go to Appearence -> Fonts and switch the fonts to TTF ones.