Uneven bold fonts in Firefox

Wynd · 11-07-2006, 10:34 PM

I am having some trouble with my fonts in Firefox. For some reason, bold fonts end up uneven on top. I'm not sure how else to describe it so here is a link to a picture:

http://www.ilstu.edu/~pjdraud/fonts.png

As you can see, the links in bold are not displaying correctly. How can I fix this?

Bruce Hill · 11-08-2006, 06:45 AM

Try uselpa's Beautiful Linux tutorial.

Here's a screenshot to what my fonts look like on that page you shot.

Wynd · 11-08-2006, 10:37 AM

I know my fonts themselves look fine, it's just the way Mozilla handles them.

This is the same page in Konqueror:

http://www.ilstu.edu/~pjdraud/fonts-good.png

Bruce Hill · 11-08-2006, 03:57 PM

They don't look so good to me in either screenshot, but whatever you like.

You also don't list which Firefox you're running, or Slackware version.

Compare the fonts selection in both browsers to see what's different.

Wynd · 11-08-2006, 04:52 PM

Well, your fonts don't look good to me! Like you said, it's preference

Anyway. Look at the links to the sub-forums in both pictures. In the Firefox picture, the text looks like "LinuXQueStiOnS.Org Member SucceSS StOrieS". In the Konqueror picture it looks fine.

I'm using Slackware 11 with Firefox 1.5.0.7.

Bruce Hill · 11-08-2006, 05:36 PM

By default the Slackware fonts look bad to me. Therefore,
before doing anything else I setup my fonts very similar
to the Beautiful Linux link I gave you. On the next Slack
install I'll check before fixing the fonts. Do you use a LCD
or CRT monitor? Did you compare the fonts used in those
two browsers?

Ilgar · 11-08-2006, 07:58 PM

Does Konqueror work well with the same fonts, is it using another one? We need to find out whether it's an X/font problem or Firefox problem.

You can try updating to FF 2.0, just download it from the patches/ directory of the 11.0 tree.

Wynd · 02-06-2007, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ilgar

Does Konqueror work well with the same fonts, is it using another one? We need to find out whether it's an X/font problem or Firefox problem.

You can try updating to FF 2.0, just download it from the patches/ directory of the 11.0 tree.

Sorry for the long delay, I kind of forgot about this thread. Yes, it's only Firefox. All other X apps work fine.

archtoad6 · 02-08-2007, 04:52 AM

How did you forget about this thread? You started it, you should be automatically subscribed.