ffi Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 fonts on many pages are not anti-aliased and look very bad, they look like what in opera is called core x fonts, which I always disable to get nice fonts. In firefox there is an option to not allow webpages to choose their own fonts which fixes the bad looking fonts but also affects all other pages which then start using the font specified.... is there an option to turn off core x fonts somewhere or to always anti-alias fonts? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Well I've just tried FF3 and almost immediately changed back to V2. As you say FFI the fonts are shocking. All the eyecandy does not improve on the looks either, but that may be me. I didn't stay with it long enough to try and like it. No back I came to a browser I can read the pages comfortably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 I am using FF3 (downloaded directly from mozilla.com) with Mandriva 2008.0/KDE and I have not seen these font problems. Can you provide a link to a web page that exhibits the poor fonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 I use Ubuntu 8.04 with FF3 which came from the repos and it's OK too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 (edited) this one looks bad: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp but oddly enough this one doesn't: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ many webpages look like the first one though, see the screenshot below Edited June 27, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Hmmm. Both web pages appear similar to me in terms of font quality. Are you using KDE or Gnome? I am using KDE and I have enabled anti-aliasing with a hinting style of "slight" from within the KDE Control Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 I've just downloaded the rpm from the repos which it states is a release candidate and the fonts on all pages render correctly now, much better for these poor eyes. The previous version was downloaded from Mozilla and displayed just what ffi was getting. The two example pages that were given as examples were noticeably different. I have now turned on anti aliasing and the quality has improved even further. One thing I haven't done is install windows fonts. Many sites use these fonts and the substitutes are not quite as good. Could it be that Ubuntu have used windows fonts on one of their pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Maybe of some interest? http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/10/651/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 actually the fonts look bad in ff2 and epiphany too, only opera looks right using gnome and with subpixel smoothing and full hinting and the plf version of freetype installed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 This is from http://beranger.org/ Maybe it is of some help. Who the bleep is using bitmap fonts these days? To avoid weird font substitution that make some pages look awful in Firefox, the first thing I do is not to install extra fonts, but to disable the bitmap fonts. As root: ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf. (It works in Debian, it worked in Mandriva, you can do it in a similar way in other distros too.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) Who the bleep is using bitmap fonts these days? Ubuntu apperantly..... disabling the bitmap fonts (= core x fonts ? ) worked.... thanks Edited June 28, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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