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I installed MS fonts with KDE's Font Installer (administration mode) and have some problems. The fonts are not as clear as i would expect, but something else is bothering me, the fonts in any web browser, they are somehow strange.

Fonts in Firefox (bookmark bar, navigation bar,....) are huge. I can change this in userChrome.css, but is there another way to have "normal" fonts?

Here is a screenshot from OOo http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs312&d=07076&f=OOo.png (1.1MB)
And here is a screenshot from FF: http://xs312.xs.to/xs312/07076/google2.png (1.1MB)
How it looks like in windows: http://xs312.xs.to/xs312/07076/win33.png

~/.fonts.conf output

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

 <match target="font" >

  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >

  <const>none</const>

  </edit>

 </match>

 <match target="font" >

  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >

  <bool>true</bool>

  </edit>

 </match>

 <match target="font" >

  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >

  <const>hintmedium</const>

  </edit>

 </match>

 <match target="font" >

  <test compare="more" name="weight" >

  <const>medium</const>

  </test>

  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >

  <bool>false</bool>

  </edit>

 </match>

 <match target="font" >

  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >

  <bool>true</bool>

  </edit>

 </match>

</fontconfig>

xorg.conf output:

Code:

#    ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"



    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"

    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"

    FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts"

EndSection



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# **********************************************************************

# Monitor section

# **********************************************************************



# Any number of monitor sections may be present



Section "Monitor"



    Identifier  "Philips107P"



# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.

# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a

# comma separated list of ranges of values.

# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S

# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.



    HorizSync  30-97



#    HorizSync        30-64        # multisync

#    HorizSync        31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies

#    HorizSync        15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies



# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.

# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a

# comma separated list of ranges of values.

# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S

# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.



    VertRefresh 50-160



  # 1152x864 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 77.10 kHz; pclk: 119.65 MHz

  Modeline "1152x864_85.00"  119.65  1152 1224 1352 1552  864 865 868 907  

-HSync +Vsync



 DisplaySize 322 241



EndSection



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# Device configured by xorgconfig:



Section "Device"

    Identifier  "Radeon9200"

    Driver      "radeon"

    #VideoRam    131072

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

Option "UseEdidDpi"  "false"

Option "Dpi"          "91 x 91"



EndSection

I added the DisplaySize 322 241, Option "UseEdidDPI" "false" and Option "DPI" "91 x 91".
I think that the DPI option does not work properly, because no matter what i write dowon it is always the same. But when i start x with "startx -- -dpi 108" for expample, the fonts are bigger, with smaller setting the fonts are smaller.

Am i missing something?
I would like to have the fonts like they are in Windows or even better.

Thanks for your help.