frozen Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hello, Not every page, but some do look very ugly in Firefox. For example a portion of adwords.google.com looks extremely ugly and the place where you input user/pass is OK (see the attachment!). What do I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Do you have the MSfonts installed? In the Mandriva Control Center you can manage fonts and have it import all your fonts from your Windows Installation. Edited January 7, 2007 by ffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Try specifying different fonts for firefox to use: Edit Preferences Content Fonts & Colors Advanced uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Do you have the MSfonts installed? In the Mandriva Control Center you can manage fonts and have it import all your fonts from your Windows Installation.. Do you know the exact name of this program? I searched and couldn't find it. My fonts in Firefox are also ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Do you have the MSfonts installed? In the Mandriva Control Center you can manage fonts and have it import all your fonts from your Windows Installation.. Do you know the exact name of this program? I searched and couldn't find it. My fonts in Firefox are also ugly drakfont or MCC -> System -> "Manage, add and remove fonts. Import Windows fonts." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) drakfont !? :huh: but your partitions cannot be fuse mounted else it wount find them Edited January 7, 2007 by ffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Well I went through MCC and imported my windows fonts and it does look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" Bingo! It works in 99% of such cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) For Opera: opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableCoreXFonts I hope this come out an url click it, else paste it and disable core x fonts and restart opera. blegh... doesnt work, just copy it into the address bar and hit enter Edited January 7, 2007 by ffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 yes, I have installed MS fonts already. still on certain pages fonts look broken or crushed as on the attachment i've included. they also look the same when I visit forums.powweb.com .. I don't want to disable the feature in firefox because I like to view the webpage the way designer meant to be viewed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Try Opera (with core X fonts disabled, like described above) just to see how it looks there. Also did you turn on anti-aliasing for fonts ? You can do it in kcontrol if you use KDE, it is under Appearence and Themes -> fonts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 (edited) This is a known issue, and you can safely blame it on a particular MS font. One MS font that is quite ugly when rendered from your browser is Tahoma- at least its free edition for the web. You can either set Tahoma being antialiased at ALL resolutions, or remove it completely. Edited January 8, 2007 by scarecrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 (edited) I just stumbled on this, maybe it aplies to frozen's problem too: http://wiki.mandriva.com/Releases/Mandriva...d_with_drakfont I just wonder why Mandriva didn't fix it yet, it's such an easy fix :o Edited January 8, 2007 by ffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) You can either set Tahoma being antialiased at ALL resolutions How do I do that? Edited January 13, 2007 by frozen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I just stumbled on this, maybe it aplies to frozen's problem too: http://wiki.mandriva.com/Releases/Mandriva...d_with_drakfont I just wonder why Mandriva didn't fix it yet, it's such an easy fix :o I've seen that too. Tried it, no effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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