Cannot force all fonts to be antialiased

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the_bat · Post by **the_bat** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:50 pm

Hi,

I basically want all my fonts to be unhinted and antialiased (with sub-pixel) and have setup my setup that way. However, I can not convince firefox to adhere to this.

I use the following small test page:

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<html>
  <body>
    <div style="font-family: Courier, Courier New, monospace;">
      Testing /// \\\ X O
    </div>
    <div style="font-family: Courier;">
      Testing /// \\\ X O
    </div>
    <div style="font-family: Courier New;">
      Testing /// \\\ X O
    </div>
    <div style="font-family: monospace;">
      Testing /// \\\ X O
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

My firefox renders this like so:

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mp26/tmp/fonts.png

My understanding is that all lines should look roughly like the fourth line.

However, line 1 and 3 are not anti-aliased and line 2 is not courier [new]. The user account which does the rendering does not have any local font settings (.fonts.conf). Another account uses the following .fonts.conf, but with similar results:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintnone</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

My global setting in /etc/conf.d/ is like this:

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10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf@
10-unhinted.conf@
20-fix-globaladvance.conf@
30-urw-aliases.conf@
40-nonlatin.conf@
45-latin.conf@
49-sansserif.conf@
50-user.conf@
51-local.conf@
60-latin.conf@
65-fonts-persian.conf@
65-nonlatin.conf@
69-unifont.conf@
70-no-bitmaps.conf@
80-delicious.conf@
90-synthetic.conf@

One further oddity here is, that when I zoom in or out several levels (2--3) in firefox, line 1 and 3 are antialiased.

Any hints appreciated.

the_bat · Post by **the_bat** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:59 pm

*bump*

How does the sample code looks for you? If better, how is your config?