Re: Font degradation viewing Web pages in Mozilla under KDE 3.0.3
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Mozilla uses a different font rendering infrastructure than KDE 3.x. KDE is
capable of using the newest and coolest version of xft - which has the most
recent Freetype libraries, while Mozilla on Unix/Linux uses an older version
of the Freetype libraries that is known to be more portable across different
platforms.
One thing you might try is using the Mozilla 1.2 beta. That version uses xft,
which markedly improves its font rendering.
On Saturday 16 November 2002 02:52 pm, Bruce Miller wrote:
> 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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