Pixelation

[hysterical]

Hi, I've just reinstalled redhat9 and in the process lost all my fonts and the config that i had. Previously i had true type fonts looking perfect in firefox, now, they don't. I've got it recognising them but on smaller text, below 8 or 9 px, some letters seem to clump together, i's l's mostly.

I've disabled auto scaling in the .../fs/config file by :unscaled and changed my default dpi from 75 to 100 also moved my truetype font directory to the top of the font list. Apart from this i cant remember what else i had to do last time, anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[hard candy]

Iwould look on rpmfind.net or freshrpms.net and see if there is a RH9 rpm for the fonts. I'm not sure if you kept the fonts when you reinstalled or installed new ones, but I would try re-installing them. RH9 uses UTF font configuration in bluecurve and that may be what's messing them up.

[hysterical]

I reinstalled the fonts from http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux/ to /usr/share/fonts/TrueType

and got tahoma from my version of xp (this is the font thats grouping letters together) but none of them look as, crisp looking as before i reinstalled redhat.

[hard candy]

You might try one/some of these rpms- especially the freetype font rendering engine
ximian (http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/11/limit/13/dl/40/vendor/792/com/Ximian,%20Inc_.html)

[hysterical]

Ok ! I think i've figured out whats wrong with my fonts. Does anyone know how or if its possible to disable anti aliasing in firefox?

I think it's because theyre so small the 'smooth edges' blend into one another on some characters ie I's and l's

Any helps appreciated.

[hard candy]

From Googling:
You can add this line to /etc/profile:

"export GDK_USE_XFT=0" to change it in all profiles.

Take a look at this site also:
Mozilla Notes (http://www.wlug.org.nz/MozillaNotes)