anti-aliasing in phoenix

[wiseguysonly]

Hi,

I am trying out phoenix which is an excellent browser if you don't need all the mozilla extras.

However, I am not sure if it is possible to get TTF's and antialiasing into the browser as it is with Moz. Page fonts are looking a bit scrappy otherwise.

Any one any ideas?

Tim

[alsh]

hmm I use phoenix with TTF AA fonts just fine so it is possible. I run debian sid and I have a bunch of ttfs installed. I got xfstt (X11 font server for truetype fonts) and other truetype font related packages installed and it works fine. I dont know which ones specifically make it work but mine worked after I installed that. Also I have microsoft TTFs installed from a windows partition but I think you can download em from the web. If you do have TTF working you should be able to go to the Tools menu, preferances, fonts and colors and just set them to whatever you want to use. If not im guessing something needs to be configured with X more

[alsh]

I also have libfreetype6 installed. Those are all the TTF related packages I have.

[wiseguysonly]

Hi,

I guess I have got the TTF fonts working OK, as they are on my desktop, apps and showing up on web-pages.

However, they are quite rough. I would really like to get the same level of smoothing that I got in Moz.

Tim

[alsh]

hmm I guess check to see if you have libfreetype installed and that it is as new of a version as possible, im pretty sure that is what phoenix uses to smooth things up and makes the fonts look nice.

[Clone5k]

If your using Redhat theres a rpm that you can download that will enable AA fonts in phoenix here (http://phoenix.ragweed.net/download)

You can also compile phoenix from source and enable xft.

[wiseguysonly]

OK, on this site I found a great version of phoenix that supports GTK2 and antialiasing like a dream.

http://blog.lordsutch.com/?entryid=59

Just thought that I would let you all know.

Tim