Re: Font degradation viewing Web pages in Mozilla under KDE 3.0.3
I can't stand the default font rendering under KDE which is why I use,
alternatively the Xft and FreeType 2 modifications found at
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/
Be careful about installing his Freetype2 since it messes up aliased fonts
quite badly. But anti-aliased fonts look better, IMHO, than on any other
platform but YMMV.
On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:52 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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