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mentallysilent
April 29th, 2008, 11:11 AM
Hello,
After an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 I notice the fonts look terrible in firefox and terminal. Currently on an LCD with subpixel smoothing, and full hinting, dpi 96.
Also why isn't there an ~/.fonts folder?
Is this a problem with rendering? Sorry I don't know much about Linux's font system. Any help is greatly appreciated.
adityakavoor
April 29th, 2008, 11:42 AM
Hello,
After an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 I notice the fonts look terrible in firefox and terminal. Currently on an LCD with subpixel smoothing, and full hinting, dpi 96.
Also why isn't there an ~/.fonts folder?
Is this a problem with rendering? Sorry I don't know much about Linux's font system. Any help is greatly appreciated.
you are better off installing MS fonts.
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Urik
April 29th, 2008, 01:02 PM
Done. The problem remains, even after playing with
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config.
mentallysilent
April 29th, 2008, 07:40 PM
But I like the bitstream vera series fonts. Everything looked beautiful with 7.10.
Thanks for the reply tho.
lamego
April 29th, 2008, 09:46 PM
I have the same problem.
Please set the bug stats to "confirmed" :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/220568
Thanks
cojoco
May 10th, 2008, 12:59 AM
This bug has nothing to do with LCD smoothing.
In both Konqueror and Firefox3, my small fonts are rendered
without any smoothing.
In Konqueror, fonts look good; in Firefox3, they look bad.
These images are from www.theregister.co.uk
I changed default font sizes from 10 to 9.
I have installed MS core fonts.
jensjk
May 14th, 2008, 03:39 PM
Similar, though not quite the same problem: In 7.10, everything was smooth and beautiful in all apllications.
In 8.10, most are also, but not all:
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