Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:56:46 -0400
Hal Burgiss <hal@foobox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:56:27PM +0100, Tom Coady wrote:
> > 
> > I just clicked the link which opened the ftp site in konqueror. Select
> > all, right click, install packages, they are automatically downloaded,
> > dependency checked and installed while the old RPMs are automatically
> > removed. This is just getting better and better. Having said that I cannot
> > see any difference so far, except that it has restored mozilla as my
> > default browser. Frankly the fonts in konqueror look much prettier still,
> > but perhaps I need to select different ones to the default?
> 
> If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it
> separately for AA. 
> 
> Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js:
>  
> // TrueType ///////////////////////////////////////////
>  pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
>  pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
>  
>  // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
>  // it is best to leave hinting off. try it both ways to see.
>  pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
>  pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
>  
>  // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
>  pref("font.antialias.min",        10);
>  pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
>  pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
>  pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8");
>  
>  // sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
>  //pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/u/sam/tt_font");
>  //pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/u/sam/other/tt_font");
>  pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
> 
> 
> Look for that section, and season to taste. You do have to turn it on,
> and tell it where the fonts are at a minimum. You then have to select
> the appropriate fonts in the Mozilla appearance/fonts configuration
> using the ones that are upper cased. Again, assuming it is like the
> standard builds. There is no click and go feature AFAIK. There is
> still some small glimmer of hope, I guess. Hinting made a big
> difference here too.
> 
> -- 
> Hal Burgiss
>
  
Very cool, it works for the pheonix nightlies too :)

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