zibi1981 Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 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 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. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 I'd say you're missing some font packages. I think I installed some TTF font packages, and it got better for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) 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. EDIT: 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: Edited February 5, 2008 by zibi1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisC-SM Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 (edited) @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 :-) Edited February 22, 2008 by LuisC-SM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Set the minimaly to 13 or 14 instead of 12 and it will look better. The fonts in firefox are in pixels instead of dpi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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