mozilla AA fonts

Sun Apr 13 20:24:56 GMT 2003

Horn,

	Look at this I really dont know what this is suppost to look like but
check it out and see for yourself

http://www.nhudson.org/ss/font-moz.jpg

Let me know if you need anything else.

Nick

On 14 Apr 2003 01:36:45 +0000
Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor at aktiv.co.hu> wrote:

> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> -- 
> Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor at aktiv.co.hu>
> 
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