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Hello,
For some reason, under my slackware 10 distro, whenever I go out to say google, the keywords i seach for do not show up in bold lettering when the results come back. everything comes back as regular font with nothing to distinguish the keywords from the norm. I have tried this under firefox, konqueror, mozilla, and galeon and checked the configurations under each browser but obviously with no luck. Has anyone had a similar problem to this?? Thanks!
//j
JohnT
08-21-2004, 11:46 AM
Attach a screenshot section of a Google page.
XiaoKJ
08-21-2004, 11:54 AM
did you set mozilla to override the font settings of all pages?
or did you forget to install fonts except for 1?
JohnT
08-21-2004, 12:08 PM
Also post your list of fonts as outlined in /etc/X11/XF86Config(4) or /etc/X11/xorg.conf, whichever your using.
The following are the font paths in xorg.conf:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
I added times new roman, courier new, and tahoma fonts to my machine but other than that i did not set to override any other settings under mozilla, firefox, etc. I tried to upload a screen capture but the size was too big and i am only allowed to upload a screen capture of no more than 102400 b according to the board. Any help with this is appreciated.
//j
JohnT
08-21-2004, 04:34 PM
am only allowed to upload a screen capture of no more than 102400 b according to the board. Any help with this is appreciated. If you have Gimp...under "File">Acquire>Screenshot. Take the screenshot and then use the rectangular selection tool to select a section of the pic. Then right-click on the selection and choose "Edit">Copy. Right-click again and choose "File">New>OK. Now right-click on the "New" window you just created and "Edit">Paste. Now back to the "File" and choose Save as....
Try changing your font types in Mozilla>Preferences. You might be using a font that is not scalable.
The attached is a screen capture (thx to JohnT for the instructions) of a search on google for the word "dodgers". Notice that the searched word is not in bold like it would normally be when making a search on google. I tried changing fonts but to no avail. Thanks for any further help!
//j
JohnT
08-21-2004, 07:21 PM
I notice your using Firefox.....these are my settings:
Ok,
I just noticed that even new mail under my gmail or yahoo is not even in bold lettering. Normally, new mail is bold lettering to distinguish it from mail that has already been read. This is weird! I appreciate any help.
//j
JohnT,
Those are basically my settings, with the exception of me using different fonts. I tried using other ones as well but to no avail. I tried this from other browsers as well (netscape, mozilla, konqueror) but that too did not work. This is very strange dont you think?!? Imma keep lookin' for now.. Thanks though.
JohnT
08-21-2004, 07:24 PM
See if you have the "Freetype2" installed. If you do make certain it is uncommented in your /etc/X11/XFConfig or /etc/X11/xorg.
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
JohnT:
Those configs are in my xorg.conf...hmmm..guess I will keep looking and googlin'
//j
JohnT
08-21-2004, 10:41 PM
Good...now is Freetype 2 installed?
hard candy
08-21-2004, 11:35 PM
Here is a tip I read about the other day.
Go to KDE Control Center-->Appearance-->Fonts--> Check the "turn on antialiasing" box. This will let KDE use the xft font engine which Mozilla,etc is compiled to use. Maybe that will work.
alright,
i finally got this issue resolved and it was my fault. i transferred some true type fonts from my windows box but didnt transfer over the bold font face or italic font face of the corresponding font. when i set that font as the default, there was no bold or italic and just the normal. that is where i was having problems :P Thanks to those that helped though!
//j
JohnT
08-22-2004, 06:53 PM
Originally posted by dev8
alright,
i finally got this issue resolved and it was my fault. i transferred some true type fonts from my windows box but didnt transfer over the bold font face or italic font face of the corresponding font. when i set that font as the default, there was no bold or italic and just the normal. that is where i was having problems :P Thanks to those that helped though!
//j Common mistake...I did suggestTry changing your font types in Mozilla>Preferences. You might be using a font that is not scalable. But you must have gone with another font that was missing those properties, which can lead you down a different road altogether when trying to diagnose. Glad you happened on a solution. Now your Font-Wise(er). :p