osom Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Hi, I am new at Linux, using Mandriva 2009 with Gnome, KDE and Xfce installed together. Firefox displays horrible fonts in the 3 systems. I have Firefox with the default fonts. I have tried to change them manually and didn't get better. I have FreeType installed plus adjusted my Mandriva for the best font quality display in the Font Manager. I have all the Windows fonts too, a total of 100 fomnts installed. Firefox looks absolutely horrible. The fonts not only look ugly but the sizes are absurd. Usually too small, unreadable many times, but the size of a same site changes every day... Any idea to improve this? Thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Fonts look good on my Mandriva 2009, I didn't do anything special, default fonts and default config, maybe all those extra fonts you installed caused this, or did you see it since before installing them? Have you tried creating a new user and starting Firefox as that user, to make sure it's not something in your Firefox config? It could also be a X windows dpi setting problem, do a: grep -i dpi /var/log/Xorg.0.log and post the output you get. Maybe also post a screenshot of firefox with the horrible fonts, to show us what you mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 You might consider enabling Antialiasing in the kde control centre, also try changing the hinting style to full, you can also try increasing the DPI of the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Is your display a flat panel ? If so, is it set to its native resolution ? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 See if the following link gives you some useful tips. http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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