Also, just a note but I've found that Mozilla tends to look really bad using the default freetype2 library because the bytecode interpreter is off, but if you enable it by building the plf version or using the Texstar version, AA fonts look really nice in Mozilla.
Beware of all the patent junk as well... :) Just my .02 worth Scott Target wrote: > Yes, those lines should do the trick. > > I do agree that AA is highly overrated. At not-too-high resolution > (like anything over 1024x768) and/or with small fonts, the end result > is "chunky" glyphs that look godawful. In fact the default fonts in > Mozilla actually look nice with AA disabled, but you wouldn't know it > having seen them antialiased. > > The first thing I do after any install is to configure AA in all > window managers and apps to activate only on large fonts, or disable > it completely if I cannot configure it like so. My eyes are damaged > enough as it is. > > At 05:58 PM 10/4/02 +0000, you wrote: > >> I came upon a review of Dolphin at >> http://www.ratedpc.com/review.asp?id=63&page=2 and it tells how to >> fix the fonts >> in Mozilla and Galeon. It says: >> >> "In all this, I realized that Galeon and Mozilla have extremely ugly >> and blurry >> (so called anti-aliased) fonts. So I needed to get rid of those. >> Another search >> on Google revealed that I need to modify the >> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/defaults/pref/unix.js lines 217-239 as follows:" >> >> 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 >> pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false); >> pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); >> // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results >> pref("font.antialias.min", 16); >> 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"); >> >> Will this work? I think it's strange that this clip that I'm >> supposed to insert >> is less than the 22 lines of 217-239. I would really like to see >> Mozilla and >> Galeon look decent, though. >> >> I'm not subscribed to cooker, so please cc any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mike > > >
