lets-eat-gary Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 Hi people, I using mandrake 9.1 I have just downloaded the latest version of mozilla firebird (0.7). It seems very good, loads up much quicker than normal Mozilla. But i have one problem, in normal mozilla the fonts are smooth (anti aliased) , in firebird they seem much rougher and not anti aliased. I have looked in the fonts settings in both Mozilla and Mozilla firebird and have noticed one main difference. In Mozilla all fonts except proportial are on [system default] , proportial is set on serif. In Mozilla firebird the fonts are all different (e.g - adobe-couier-iso8859) and there is no option of [system default] Is it possible to use the smooth fonts of firebird? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Did you try setting to another font than adobe-couier-iso8859. It may not be picking up that font and is using a substitute in its place, which may be causing it to look rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 it kinda sounds like you didn't get a version of firebird with xft compiled into it. if you had an xft-enabled firebird font names would be displayed by their normal name like courier. since you're firebird is displaying font names like adobe-courier-iso8859, i think that means that it wasn't compiled with xft, and i don't think firebird can anti alias fonts with xft enabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted October 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 thanks guys, i'll look for a version with xft in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted October 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 It worked!! Thanks guys, now i can use firebird as my main browser! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peep Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 the only place i've seen these is in the nightly builds at the mozilla site. is there an rpm version with xft enabled?? edit: i found the official release with xft here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 It worked!! Thanks guys, now i can use firebird as my main browser! What worked :?: Getting Firebird compiled for xft or selecting a different font :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 i guess he meant using the gtk2 + xft one in the contrib - ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...d/releases/0.7/ , will give you better looking fonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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