mozilla 1.6 fonts suck

Peter Eddy petere at atg.com
Mon Jan 26 22:37:03 UTC 2004


redhat wrote:
> I just upgraded Mozilla from the stock 1.4.1 that came with FC1 to 1.6
> in an attempt to get Flash working - still haven't gotten that working. 
> The fonts that came with FC1 were pretty good but the ones that come in
> 1.6 suck.  Any ideas as to how to remedy this?  They were serif fonts
> and now they are adobe: times, helvetica and courier based fonts.  No
> options for just "serif" or "sans-serif" fonts.  
> thanks,
> DF

This topic was discussed just recently on this list so I won't repeat 
everything. But in short, you need a mozilla built with XFT support, you 
can get it here, among other places:
  ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/1.6/redhat/

Peter





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