Font degradation viewing Web pages in Mozilla under KDE 3.0.3
I have cross-posted this message on libranet-users and on Debian-KDE.
I ask that any typographers reading this message forgive my ignorance of the
correct technical term to describe the phenomenon which is happening.
I read Web pages most frequently with Mozilla 1.1 under KDE 3.0.3. KDE's font
rendering has continued to improve steadily, even following the introduction
of anti-aliasing. It has become good enough to start poking at smaller
issues.
Chief among these for me is the "degradation" of fonts when one scrolls a long
web page. A web page which one has scrolled often looks like a book printed
with old worn-out metal type, with many letters "broken", especially on the
serifs at the edges of each letter. The solution is always to reload the page
(^R in Mozilla).
Is there anything one can do to reduce or eliminate this font "degradation"?
The following are the fonts and font managers which I have installed:
cmatrix-xfont 1.1b-5 X11 font for Console Matrix
fonttastic-gli 2000.03.13.12. Bitstream FontTastic font server for Corel W
gfontview 0.5.0-0.2 A font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts
gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
gsfonts-x11 0.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
gtkfontsel 1.1-5 A gtk+ based font selection utility
msttcorefonts 1.1.1 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
psfontmgr 0.11.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D
wpo2000-fonts- 2000.03.13.12. TrueType fonts
x-ttcidfont-co 13 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X.
xfont-nexus 0.0.1-3 Nexus font for X servers
xfonts-100dpi 4.2.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X
xfonts-100dpi- 4.2.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106
xfonts-75dpi 4.2.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X
xfonts-75dpi-t 4.2.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064
xfonts-base 4.2.1-3 standard fonts for X
xfonts-base-tr 4.2.1-3 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10
xfonts-jmk 3.0-3 James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X
xfonts-mona 2.21-1 proportional fonts for 2ch ASCII art
xfonts-scalabl 4.2.1-3 scalable fonts for X
This extract from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 controls fonts:
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
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