Re: [desktop] AA problems on some websites with mozilla-xft and galeon

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:03:17PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dim 16/02/2003 à 18:30, Pasi Kärkkäinen a écrit :
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I'm using unstable, and AA fonts are working in mozilla-xft. 
> > 
> > But then, some sites are not antialiased.. here's a screenshot to show what
> > I mean:
> > 
> > http://nrg.joroinen.fi/screenshot-xineweb.png
> > 
> > http://www.sun.com also is not antialised..
> > 
> > I have installed msttcorefonts. I am using fi_FI locale. 
> > 
> > What could cause that ?
> 
> Blame the lame webmasters. They require some specific fonts (arial,
> helvetica, times) instead of just asking for serif or sans-serif.
> Mozilla knows about e.g. helvetica but only has bitmapped versions of
> it.
> 
> You can add this to your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf to work
> around that :
>         <match target="pattern">
>                 <test qual="any" name="family">
>                         <string>helvetica</string>
>                 </test>
>                 <edit name="family" mode="assign">
>                         <string>sans-serif</string>
>                 </edit>
>         </match>
>                                                                         
>         <match target="pattern">
>                 <test qual="any" name="family">
>                         <string>times</string>
>                 </test>
>                 <edit name="family" mode="assign">
>                         <string>serif</string>
>                 </edit>
>         </match>
> 

OK. Thanks!

Should this kind of settings be in the default fonts.conf ?

Or maybe a question while installing fontconfig..


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