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zibi1981
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I'm recently using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and have some problems with fonts. In fact on some (but not all) web pages (i.e. on this forum) they are very small. Here are my font settings in Firefox

 

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I don't have such problems when using Opera. I also don't want to use msfonts, as the native work perfectly in my system and other browsers. Couldn't find any solution on this board.

 

 

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Well, I got plenty of fonts on my system, and they are working perfectly in Opera or Konqueror. Why should I install more of them? My favorite are Liberation fonts and I set them to be default also in Firefox. Maybe they don't work as they should be in this browser. I'll try to use different fonts then.

 

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It got better after I changed proportional font, in Firefox fonts settings, to be sans-serif instead of serif. But it's still far for perfect :unsure:

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It's not a case of having a lot of fonts. It's more a case of having the right fonts for Firefox. You can have lots of fonts installed, but none of them might be used by Firefox - and hence the problem.

 

This is what I'm currently running on my Fedora 8 system in terms of fonts. I also had font problems until I installed a few packages:

 

[ian@esprit ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i ttf
baekmuk-ttf-fonts-common-2.2-6.fc8
baekmuk-ttf-fonts-gulim-2.2-6.fc8
[ian@esprit ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i font | grep -vi ttf
fontconfig-2.4.2-5.fc8
fontconfig-2.4.2-5.fc8
paktype-fonts-2.0-2.fc8
jomolhari-fonts-0.003-4.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
tetex-fonts-3.0-44.3.fc8
terminus-font-console-4.20-8.fc8
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.2.fc7
lohit-fonts-malayalam-2.1.5-3.fc8
lohit-fonts-telugu-2.1.5-3.fc8
libXfontcache-1.0.4-3.fc8
dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.19-1
sazanami-fonts-gothic-0.20040629-4.20061016.fc8
lohit-fonts-tamil-2.1.5-3.fc8
lklug-fonts-0.2.2-5.fc8
lohit-fonts-punjabi-2.1.5-3.fc8
dejavu-fonts-2.20-1.fc8
chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc8
urw-fonts-2.4-3.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.2-3.fc8
lohit-fonts-bengali-2.1.5-3.fc8
lohit-fonts-hindi-2.1.5-3.fc8
lohit-fonts-gujarati-2.1.5-3.fc8
kacst-fonts-1.6.2-2.fc8
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-2.fc8
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-18.fc8
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-8
msttcorefonts-1.3-4
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
cjkunifonts-uming-0.1.20060928-4.fc8
lohit-fonts-kannada-2.1.5-3.fc8
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc
libXfont-1.3.1-2.fc8
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.fc8
libfontenc-1.0.4-4.fc8
lohit-fonts-oriya-2.1.5-3.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-3.fc8
terminus-font-x11-4.20-8.fc8

 

package names might change, but here is an idea of what additional packages I installed:

 

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

 

look in the emerging the necessary fonts section, I installed most of these:

 

These are the necessary packages:

 

* x11-base/xorg-x11

* media-libs/freetype

* media-fonts/corefonts

* media-fonts/freefonts

 

However I advise you to also install these useful fonts (note: media-fonts/unifont blocks dev-util/eclipse-sdk):

 

* media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera

* media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en

* media-fonts/sharefonts

* media-fonts/terminus-font

* media-fonts/unifont

* media-fonts/dejavu

* media-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf — "A GPL-2 Helvetica/Times/Courier replacement TrueType font set, courtesy of Red Hat".

 

the package names can be more or less the same. Firefox was crap before I installed these packages. Hope it helps a little, it should at least help you with the fonts in Firefox if you don't have some of these already.

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  • 3 weeks later...

@zibbi

 

To fix the blurry fonts in FF just follow the next 3 steps:

 

1.- In the address bar type: about:config

2.- In the filter box write "dpi" (without quotes) and change the integer valu from -1 to 0 (zero)

3.- Again in the filter box type freetype and change the logical values to "true" except for the "unhinted" which must be false

 

The rest is a matter of playing with your preferences as you did before

 

Cheers

 

Luis

 

EDIT: hope this is not too late :-)

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