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Sharif Garmon
Some of the vertical lines in the fonts are double width like a mixture of bold and normal font weight. I have hardware accellaration disabled. The problem is not fixed when I change default font settings. The problem is not resolved be resetting zoom to 0.
Inspect Element identifies the problem happens when the website selects open Sans. If I stop sites selecting fonts and force the defaults I don not get the problem. Therefore the problem is with Firefox 33.1 rendering certain fonts specified by websites.
Thanks Cor-el. I've re-enabled hardware acceleration and disabled OMTC. No sign of the dragons. I've also downloaded and installed the Open Sans font family. None of these change the display in Firefox.
the font test shows open sans as bad but others such as myriad pro look a bit strange. I printed the test to a pdf. The print preview screen has the problem but acrobat renders the fonts correctly. So does IE8.
Thanks Finitarry. I've trid that change but the problem still exists. Maybe it is one of the other rendering parameters or now firefox wants cleartype fonts while my vist machine only has trutype and opentype. No doubt I will have learned something about fots by the time this is solved.
Hi,
I installed the ttf-liberation font and noticed that the font that I can adjust in firefox doesn't change on every website. For example it works on ArchLinux Forums but not on Phoronix.
To be more precise: When I go to Phoronix.com and change the font in firefox, the font on Phoronix should obviously change. This however doesn't seem to work when ttf-liberation font is installed. Instead firefox always uses some other font (ttf-liberation?).
Have you told Firefox to override the page's own settings? By default, Firefox will try to use the font the page specifies if it can so far as I know. If that's not available, it will fall back and so on. What most people specify as default fonts are the fonts Firefox will use when it has to follow back to a generically specified font. (E.g. "sans" or "serif" or "mono" or whatever.)
In any case, if the "Allow Websites to use their own fonts" then websites will use the font they specify and use the fonts you select as fall back fonts. If "Allow Websites to use their own fonts" is NOT set then Firefox will Force websites to use the font you select... which is not advisable.
Why do you want Firefox to force websites to use a font? I suspect you started down this road because font on websites viewed in Firefox look like crap? If so, then forcing a font is not the solution. What you need to do is modify the font configuration to enable Anti-Aliasing, Sub-Pixel Hinting, and stuff. The easiest way to do that is by installing like aur/cairo-ubuntu
I am confused, too. Actually I do not want to force Firefox to do anything. I'm rather reporting a weird bug (?) that occurs when ttf-lieration font is not installed.
Namely (when liberation are not installed) Firefox does force the fonts onto other websites, although it isn't supposed to (box checked).
Most websites will specify a list of preferred fonts. The last one in the list is usually (should be) a "generic" name e.g. sans or serif. This is to ensure that no matter what fonts the system lacks, the page can be displayed and the text read. So if the website has fallen back to the generic, then changing the default font in Firefox will change the font the page displays in. That's expected. Without seeing the code for the page and knowing the fonts on your machine, I can't say this is the explanation but that strikes me as most likely from here.
I did some further tests and unfortunately I am more confused than ever.
cfr I understand your point, but there's somthing more. I did fc-match and the output is always "dejavu sans" - whether liberation fonts are installed or not.
When you look into the sourcecode of the black sidebar on the left in phoronix (just as an example, it is the same for other websites, too) you see: arial,helvetica,sans-serif.
So long as arial and helvetica aren't removed, "sans-serif" will not be used. When I leave helvetica, then firefox uses helvetica. However when I leave only arial and sans-serif, firefox seems to use some replacement for arial (since I haven't got arial installed), it might be liberation sans or helvetica - I don't know since both look the same.
Ok, I think I finally figured it out. The problem is that "arial" fonts are being replaced by Liberation Sans fonts (if they are installed of course), so the website doesn't switch to "sans-serif" which would then be DejaVu Sans.
However there's still the font "helvetica" which confuses me still and hindered me all the time from figuring out the actual problem.
Helvetica seems to get "assimilated" by other fonts: Without Liberation installed fonts it's the very same as "DejaVu Sans", when you install them however, then Helevetica will be 'switch' from DejaVu Sans to Liberation Sans.
Note that you must have installed dejavu and the 75/100dpi fonts. Maybe as dependencies of other packages. (I don't even have the 75/100dpi fonts installed. I do have dejavu because I did install that.)
I'm glad you found the source of the issue. To affect your fonts, that file must be linked from /etc/fonts/conf.d. So you can either delete the symlink or delete the link, copy the file and edit the copy. That way your changes should persist even when the files are updated, I believe. Or you could also rename the edited file to be certain.
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