****Re: FC-5 my display (fonts) looks terrible

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Aug 24 00:09:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > I updated today and ended up rebooting and my fonts are all poorly
> > bit-mapped, whether I use KDE or GNOME and I even created a new user and
> > the problem is the same.
> > 
> > I previously added the mstcorefonts and Adobe Type Basics to the fonts
> > normally installed and I don't know if that would impact this but the
> > display is terrible in Evolution and in Firefox though Oo seems fine.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
> A guy posted the answer yesterday - you need to gratuitously change the 
> Control Center | Appearance and Themes | Configure... button | Exclude 
> Range checkbox, Apply, then change it back to what you had before.  Then 
> exit and restart Firefox and it all looks lovely.
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yep - thanks

that was a nasty surprise...the kind of thing that can give a distro a
bad name.

Craig




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