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  • From: "M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>, Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] mozilla reverted?
  • Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:57:14 +0100

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:08:26 -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote
> ugh, got 1.1 to compile with the xft2 stuff and let me say that the
> fonts are HIDEOUS! the test in the main web pages i can deal with

Hi Jeremy,

same here, xft2 fonts in mozilla are ugly !

(BTW maybe we do something wrong ;)


Bye,
Mat.

> but the menus and the text in the To: fields and what not are way to
> huge. anyone know how to fix this? also it doesn't seem to detect my
> truetype fonts anymore even though i edited that file like in the wiki.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Dufflebunk wrote:
>
> >I built mozilla 1.2b manualt without too much problem for gtk+2,
> >including xft and fontconfig. I filed a bug with the configure switches
> >I used. No patching was necessary.
> >Haven't tried the spell yet.
> >
> >On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 02:56, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:08:49AM -0600, Casey Harkins wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Has anyone had luck with the mozilla spell + xft2/fontconfig? I've said
> >>>yes to the option, but compilation always fails. Hadn't had time to check
> >>>if a bug has been filed.
> >>>
> >>>-casey
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I've been running mozilla with Xft2/fontconfig for quite some time.
> >>How to get it running depends on the mozilla version, for 1.1 you need
> >>the patch included in the spell, for 1.2b you don't. You need to pass
> >>--enable-xft to configure (the spell doesn't do that, don't know if i
> >>forgot it when adding Xft2 support...). I haven't tested if it works with
> >>the
> >>gtk2 patch.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Arwed
> >>aka alley_cat
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