Re: [Fink-users] Mozilla won't display bold text correctly

[Hanspeter N. <ni...@oc...>]

Michèle Garoche wrote:
> 
> Le 31 janv. 2005, à 16:57, Cle...@sh... a écrit :
> 
>> Thanks for the answer, but I don't think it has anything to do
>> with fonts preference. I have tried several combinations of fonts
>> and font sizes, with no effect.
> 
> Well, let's say I'm basic. Something related to fonts?
> applesystemfonts, or so?

I just had a little bit of success to get SOME bold fonts.  In the 
Firefox font panel, there was no specific font chosen for serif, 
sans-serif, or monospace.  When I changed the serif font to "Century 
Schoolbook", I started getting bold fonts.

The catch, the font size needs to be at least 17 (I'm on a 20" Cinema 
Display) before I can see the bold.  If I try any other font (like 
Times, Courier, Lucida, Comic Sans) at any size, I never see the bold. 
Only Century Schoolbook works.

Also, I installed applesystemfonts and xft2-dev and rebuilt all of 
firefox before testing the bolding again, so I'm not sure which of the 3 
changes actually made a difference.  The bad part is, of course, that 
only one font works and not always.

Michèle, what are your font settings in Mozilla?  And have you tried 
building Firefox to see if you also get bold with it? Its dependencies 
are a subset of Mozilla's, so it shouldn't take long to build and test.

We're all running Apple's X11, so at least that doesn't seem to be the 
issue.

I'm going to try and install mozilla-1.7.5-1.  Here's the list of 
dependencies that I don't have.  Except for freetype2, none of them seem 
important for font drawing (and when I was packaging firefox, having 
freetype2 around didn't do anything for me).  So I'm not sure which 
missing dependency (if that is indeed the issue) is affecting the font 
display.

automake1.8
compress-zlib-pm581
freetype2-hinting-dev freetype2-hinting-shlibs
gconf2 gconf2-dev gconf2-shlibs
gnome-base gnome-mime-data
gnome-vfs2-ssl-dev gnome-vfs2-ssl-shlibs
html-parser-pm581 html-tagset-pm
intltool
lcms lcms-shlibs
libbonobo2 libbonobo2-dev libbonobo2-shlibs
libmng2 libmng2-shlibs
libtool14 libtool14-shlibs
libwww-pm581
mozilla-browser mozilla-chatzilla mozilla-dom-inspector 
mozilla-js-debugger mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-shlibs
orbit2 orbit2-dev orbit2-shlibs
popt popt-shlibs
shared-mime-info
uri-pm581
xml-parser-pm581

Hanspeter

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