Re: Mozilla fonts

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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:57:31 +1000, "Peter B. West"
<pbwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When I install the Mozilla 1.4 rpm, I get access to the fontconfig
> fonts 
> system, including (it appears) virtual oblique fonts, created on the 
> fly.  These appear in the Mozilla fonts dialog, separated by a 
> horizontal line from the other available fonts.  If I select these 
> generic fonts, or the Luxi fonts (which appear to be the same thing)
> or, say, the Bitstream Vera fonts from OpenOffice, the results are
> gorgeous. 

>   If I now download and install Mozilla 1.5, copying the 
> /usr/bin/mozilla scritp from the 1.4 RPM, making the appropriate 
> modifications, the font picture is completely different.  Now the 
> fotnconfig system fonts are not available, and if I select Luxi or
> Vera, the results are terrible.  What's going on?

You've installed Mozilla compiled against libfrytype2 not xfs. Try
installing this packages:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5rc2/contributed/

They are RC2 but it works with XFT and are fairly stable. They are RPMS.
:-)

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