Firefox & Thunderbird fonts

[Keith Powell]

On Friday 14 April 2006 4:21 pm, Frank Merenda wrote:
> I actually still had cruddy fonts. I fixed it by doing the
> following:
>
> create a file called:
>
> ~/.fonts.conf
>
> put the following in the file (without the ===) and my fonts are
> smooth as butter again... :)
>
> =================================================
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>
>    <!-- auto-hint -->
>    <match target="font">
>      <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
>        <bool>true</bool>
>      </edit>
>    </match>
>
>    <!-- hinting -->
>   <match target="font" >
>    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
>     <bool>true</bool>
>    </edit>
>   </match>
>   <!-- hint style -->
>   <match target="font" >
>    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
>     <const>hintmedium</const>
>    </edit>
>   </match>
>
>    <!--  Enable sub-pixel rendering -->
>    <match target="font">
>          <test qual="all" name="rgba">
>                  <const>unknown</const>
>          </test>
>          <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
>    </match>
>
> </fontconfig>
>
>
> =================================================

Thank you for publishing the file, Frank.

For information, I have done some tests and, with my set-up, the best 
looking screen fonts are with using the downgraded "fontconfig" 
package and not using your file.

Cheers

Keith