In the last episode (Jun 01), Angelin Lalev said: > I'm not certain to even ask the right question here, but here I go. > > Apparently, there are certain web pages that require specifically > Arial and look like sh*th on Firefox. Since there is no Arial on > FreeBSD and since I'm aware of the copyright and patent issues which > prevent copying and displaying (correctly) Arial and other TTF fonts > from Windows boxes, I was wandering is there a way to make firefox > choose Helvetica instead of Arial and say Times New Roman instead of > Tahoma and so on ... The Fonts dialog on Firefox seem to only > address the choice of default Serif, Sans-Serif and Monospace fonts.
Freetype2's auto-hinter (which does not infringe on any patents) should be able to display Arial from the x11-fonts/webfonts port just fine. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
