Firefox HTML Rendering

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 2/15/07, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/02/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Looks to me like Epiphony is rendering the fonts you specified, but
> > > Firefox is rendering them in a Serif font - as far as I recall both Verdana
> > > and Tahoma are San Serif fonts (my memory is sketchy on this however). What
> > > settings do you have in Options/Contents/Fonts & Colours for Firefox?
> > >
> >
> > Currently, the Default Font is empty<http://picasaweb.google.com/joelbryan.juliano/FirefoxAndEpiphanyRenderingComparison/photo#5031759577559793394>,
> > I'm assuming that this is set to Deja Vu Sans (or still Bitstream, is it?).
> > The advance preferences is set to Serif
> > <http://picasaweb.google.com/joelbryan.juliano/FirefoxAndEpiphanyRenderingComparison/photo#5031759530315153122>,
> > also the color is set to default.<http://picasaweb.google.com/joelbryan.juliano/FirefoxAndEpiphanyRenderingComparison/photo#5031759483070512850>
> >
> > I'm running latest Feisty, with upgraded Xorg 7.2, but I'm sure nothing
> > has changed in the fonts compared to Xorg 7.1.
> >
> >
> If the text in the document is requested to rendered in those fonts, do
> you actually have those fonts installed? I know they are heavily used under
> Windows but do you actually have them installed in your OS? If not, the
> borwsers will attempt to make choices on substitue fonts and it looks to me
> like the two browsers have elected to go for differing fonts.
>
> Of course, if you actually have Tahoma and Verdana they should be used.



No, I don't have any other fonts other than the default ttf fonts packages
in Ubuntu. I just use Tahoma and Verdana choices since it's one of the
available fonts choices in Google Docs. I don't have msttfcorefonts either.
I'm thinking maybe because Epiphany uses Cairo and Pango more than Firefox.


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