Guest tOz Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Hi there, I followed some tutorials on the net like this one to get that nice-looking Windows fonts in my Mandriva distro, and I think that I got all font stuff perfectly working with nice fonts (GTK, gnome, KDE, qt, apps & menus, OOo, looking with the fonts I want and anti-aliased) There is no problems using such applications, they look nice, even browsing with Firefox most of the pages render with the fonts I configured, but there are some that do not. One example to show what i'm saying: This LQ forum image is that what is shown with my Firefox. It looks nice, just like the windows version of FF. The problem comes when i'm watching some css-styled sites like the Gmail help section (strangely the gmail normal webmail interface shows OK). They seem to be configured in a font family that Firefox still shows as the fonts that came preinstalled in my system (yes the ones that I don't want, like helvetica) Notice the blocky font used, specially around the vowels Crap, even the site that teached me to do that stuff is looking ugly (perhaps for the same problem, looking at source it was created using Quanta Plus, which I wonder it defaults to linux fonts... Looks like I missed to mess even more with some config files, or this is a issue that can't be fixed with firefox, because all other browsers/apps (konqueror, opera) renders these few pages correctly. Any ideas? This is what I get using Firefox under Windows, I want something near that: [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 (edited) You can configure firefox to always use a set of fonts that you specify. If you do this, is there any improvement? edit preferences general fonts & colors always use my fonts Also, have you tried adding MS fonts which would replace the linux fonts you do not like (such as helvetica). If you install some MS fonts, they will be chosen before/over the linux fonts. Edited September 23, 2005 by daniewicz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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