Mozilla Font Problems

guygriffiths · 12-23-2003, 05:45 AM

I have installed a new system with LFS-5.0 and I can't get fonts working properly with Mozilla. I built it with xft enabled. I have checked this by going to "about:buildconfig" and the option --enable-xft is present. I have freetype 2.1.5 installed and I have installed some windows fonts into the directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts I ran "mkfontscale", "mkfontdir" and a perl script to create font alias. I have edited /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js (which is symlinked to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6b/defaults/pref/unix.js) and changed the relevant parts. It now looks like this:

// TrueType
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", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results

pref("font.antialias.min", 10);
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");

// sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts");
//pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/u/sam/tt_font2");
//pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/u/sam/tt_font3");
pref("font.FreeType2.printing", true);

Yet it does no checking of the font directory on startup, and the new fonts are not available under preferences. Could anyone help?
Guy

edit: all of the fonts are available with xfontsel by the way

Zoombie · 12-23-2003, 08:55 AM

I don't use the Mozilla freetype thing. With XFree86 4.3, you can have this feature across the board. You may need to edit your /etc/fonts/local.conf file:

Code:

<fontconfig>
...
  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

It just needs to contain the directory that has your TrueType fonts. Then run fc-cache, and I think you should be good to go. For more information, check out: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/fonts2.html

guygriffiths · 12-23-2003, 11:18 AM

Excellent thanks, that worked a treat. If anyone knows what was wrong I'd be interested to know but that worked perfectly

Zoombie · 12-24-2003, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by guygriffiths
Excellent thanks, that worked a treat. If anyone knows what was wrong I'd be interested to know but that worked perfectly

I'm not sure what was wrong with FreeType - I've never gotten it to work right myself. The only time I got it working at all, everything was bold, and underline wasn't supported for some reason. But XFT works fine for me. For whatever reason, XFree86 doesn't seem to have any standard TTF directory, so you have to tell XFT wherever you put them.