Font problems - blurry text and bold fonts

Giorgos pinkisntwell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 12:12:36 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:29 -0500, Steve wrote:
> Giorgos wrote:
> > In certain programs (eg Firefox) I get a very blurry font, looks like
> > cleartype. Also, in some greek sites latin characters appear as bold
> > while greek characters normal. Here is a screenshot which shows both the
> > blurry text part and the bold/normal thing.
> >
> > http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot3lv.png
> 
> You might want to check to make sure that "font auto-hint" is not 
> enabled. I once enabled it and noticed that it did blur the fonts like 
> cleartype (anti-alias).
> 
> Read this:
> 
> http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrafonts
> 
> Specifically points 4 and 5:
> 
> sudo gedit /etc/fonts/local.conf
> 
> 
> Make sure that the section in question actually *IS* commented out (so 
> that it is ignored by the system). I think you may need to restart the 
> X-server (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) or maybe reboot the system if you edit 
> this file.
> 

I didn't have /etc/fonts/local.conf at all... any other ideas? Can
someone visit http://www.adslgr.com/forum/index.php on his machine and
provide some screenshots?





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