On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > he situation is better, but still far from what it was before: the way > > Firefox renders the fonts is rather mediocre. I have tried all > > suggestion that you gave me, but the progress is not perfect. Any > > further ideas? Regarding fonts everything was fine till I Installed > > msttcorefonts and rebooted. > > Well, have you tried removing those fonts? I've found some Microsoft > fonts to be rather poor looking. Likewise if I've installed some other > fonts that didn't come with Linux. > > Usually, we don't have them, and our browsers will use whatever font it > feels appropriate (which usually look good). But if a webpage calls for > a crappy font, and you have it, it'll use it. > > Some fonts seem designed to look good when used with certain types of > anti-aliasing techniques, and look bad when you don't have that type, or > none at all. Other's seem quite good without any anti-aliasing, then > get smudgey if you try it. > > I notice that the drivers for my NVidia card also add some anti-aliasing > and softening/sharpening options. I haven't played with them much, > other than deliberately seeing how bad they can make things look. There > could be other factors on your computer that are making fonts look bad > for you. > > Generally, I find things look very good on Fedora with the defaults, a > bit better when I played with the font rendering options. Firefox looks > a bit worse, but not staggeringly. Likewise with Opera, it seems that > quite a few web browsers do their own font rendering, independently of > the system. Medium weight fonts look a bit worse than normal or bold, > likewise with certain sizes. > > They look a lot better on a CRT screen than LCD, and that's because the > LCDs are a lower resolution and unable to smooth across pixels in the > way that CRTs do naturally. Thanks to all for your replies and patience. Tim's reply hinted to me the solution: something was left on my system after 'yum remove msttcorefonts'. Indeed, I still had msttcorefonts on my system ( learned that through 'locate andale' with a previous 'updatedb'). Now that I have removed every trace of msttcorefonts, I see fonts rendered with supreme quality on my LCD screen, even on Thunderbird and Firefox. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
