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10-15-2003, 06:42 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: mandrake 9.1
Posts: 62
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mozilla firebird - lost anti aliased fonts
Hi people,
I using mandrake 9.1
I have just downloaded the latest version of mozilla firebird (0.7). It seems very good, loads up much quicker than normal Mozilla.
But i have one problem, in normal mozilla the fonts are smooth (anti aliased) , in firebird they seem much rougher and not anti aliased.
I have looked in the fonts settings in both Mozilla and Mozilla firebird and have noticed one main difference.
In Mozilla all fonts except proportial are on [system default] , proportial is set on serif.
In Mozilla firebird the fonts are all different (e.g - adobe-couier-iso8859) and there is no option of [system default]
Is it possible to use the smooth fonts of firebird?
Cheers
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10-15-2003, 07:01 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Glasgow
Distribution: Fedora / Solaris
Posts: 3,109
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Hi.
There's a version of Firebird which uses Xft (this allows Firebird to use anti-aliased fonts).
You'll have to download that and replace your current version with it. (It's listed on the firebird download page).
Dave
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10-16-2003, 05:25 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: mandrake 9.1
Posts: 62
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thanks guys, i'll look for a version with xft in
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10-16-2003, 06:12 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: mandrake 9.1
Posts: 62
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It worked, I just got the xft version (MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz) and it looks good. I am now going to use this as my main browser.
If i download Mozilla from there site (not mandrake update) should i also look out for a xft version.
Thanks!
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10-16-2003, 06:17 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Posts: 6
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help
help me with error 28
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10-16-2003, 08:48 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Reading, UK
Distribution: Debian 3.0, LFS
Posts: 524
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The problem I've been having with Firebird is that it does not anti-alias fonts according to my system settings (10->15pt). When it does anti-alias, it looks great, but when it doesn't it looks rubbish. Much worse than other applications, which still look great. Is there a way round this? I compiled from source with
--enable-xft
as an option.
Is there a way to make things better?
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10-16-2003, 09:14 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Italy
Distribution: Ubuntu 13.10
Posts: 304
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you should have searched the threads before posting this, because there is an answer:
download firebird 0.7 nightly build
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