mozilla AA fonts

[HornGábor]

Hi Nick!

First thanks for your help. Now i have Bitsream fonts installed, and
could set it in mozilla for Western and User Defined and Unicode fonts.
(in edit/preferences) But unfortunatelly i cannot set it for Central
European. The strange thing is that all the CE characters appear nice on
my desktop after setting this font family for everything in kde control
center. Not sure if i do something wrong? 

Could u do me a fast test please? Please take a screenshot from
www.noworks.hu and send it to me, so i can check if it displays better
for u than me (slashdot and other 'western' pages appears really nice, i
only have prob w/ 8859-2 pages). 


Thanks a lot, hirisov

2003-04-12, szo keltezéssel Nick Hudson ezt írta:
> This is what I do with Mozilla and Galeon2.  Mozilla has a option to
> either use the web fonts the webpage specifies or you can specify one
> font for the browser.  For me I choose 1 font for every webpage being
> that in my opinion most webpages use ugly ass fonts.  It makes for
> better reading and its a whole lot better looking than trying to render
> webpage fonts that might not be AA to being with.  
> 
> As for editing your unix.js you really dont have to do that with Mozilla
> 1.3 if you have Xft compiled it, it kind of does it own its own.  As for
> that webpage for me as I have all webpages rendering in 1 font they all
> look the same.  You can take a look at some screenshopts I did to give
> you a idea of what I am talking about:
> 
> http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla-xft2.png
> http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla-gtk2.png
> 
> This next one is how I have my fonts setup in my prefrences under
> Mozilla
> 
> http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla.png
> 
> If you have any questions or thoughts please let me know.  AA fonts are
> a bit tricky and I work on it every day to try to fiond a better way of
> doing things in Lunar with AA fonts.  Hopefully one day I will find a
> solution that will solve alot of problems.  Main one that I run into
> most if not all of the core fonts are not AA and cant be rendered that
> way.  All of the ttf fonts are and they work well with Xft.  Now the
> downside to the Core unix fonts is that some webpages I have run into
> use those fonts that dont render AA at all and you get a horrible
> looking font.  This is why I use 1 font to look at webpages, makes for
> much easier living a reading on my eyes.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 12 Apr 2003 18:18:08 +0000
> Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor at aktiv.co.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 
> > I use now mozilla 1.3, w/ enabled AA (editing unix.js, u know, i
> > attach it to be sure). As i found not all the fonts r rendered w/ AA.
> > A bit surprisingly for me, especially the original unix fonts has
> > problems(the MS web core fonts are displayed nice in AA). I dig a bit
> > the web to find a solution, and found the following page:
> > 
> > http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm
> > 
> > This page has texts w/ all the common font styles, so one can easily
> > check which fonts don't get displayed AA. Go to the Sample of Fonts
> > section, there u can see the different fonts.
> > 
> > W/ a 'default' lunar install (installung truetype module), i have the
> > following results:
> > 
> > Microsoft Core Web Fonts: All dispalyed properly w/ AA.
> > 
> > Common Windows Fonts: none of the serif fonts, but all the others are
> > displayed AA.
> > 
> > Common Mac fonts: None of the fonts expect Charcoal and Geneva are
> > displayed AA.
> > 
> > Common unix fonts: NONE of them is dispalyed AA!!!
> > 
> > So i think the problem is i have no ttf versions of eg the 'common
> > unix fonts'. Only me?
> > 
> > I think linux and mozilla (and lunar :) is ready for displaying very
> > nice AA in browsers, just we should organize the fonts a bit better.
> > Could u check please the above page if that displays fonts properly
> > for u? 
> > 
> > Sorry i know it's not exactly lunar related, but i think if we could
> > have a nice solution for this, lunar could be among the bests in
> > another parameter (i think now it's among them in package management
> > and user/developer community and support).
> > 
> > thanks, hirisov
> > 
> > 
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Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor at aktiv.co.hu>