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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote |
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>>I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. |
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>>It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font |
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>>and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge |
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>>spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to |
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>>be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic |
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>>mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 |
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> Problem |
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> ======= |
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> I had the exact same problem in Firefox. What's happening is that you |
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> are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S* |
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> fonts, so what you do has no effect. |
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> |
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> Solution |
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> ======== |
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> The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different. In Firefox, it |
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> was as follows... |
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> Edit |
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> Preferences |
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> General |
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> Fonts & Colors |
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> Near the bottom of the "Fonts & Colors" tab, check the option... |
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> Always use my: [X] Fonts |
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> Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect. |
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Actually, the solution for me was to get rid of the mozilla-bin port and |
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compile it from scratch. Evidently mozilla-bin has some integration |
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problems with Xorg, etc. Then it doesn't matter what that "Allow |
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documents to use other fonts" setting is. My test web page was |
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www.msnbc.com. Mozilla-bin totally barfs on this page, whereas the |
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compiled version renders everything correctly. |
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I only have one problem left. Windowmaker starts up (when I am just a |
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regular user) then aborts because it can't find one of the TrueType |
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fonts. That font directory is set in xorg.conf, but I am afraid the |
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problem is in the /etc/fonts directory. I just don't have enough |
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experience working with those config files to get TrueType fonts set up |
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right. |
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But I have made good progress! I am happy about that. |
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Rob. |
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