[gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

[gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

[Rob]

I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. 
It is not rendering text correctly.  I have tried Arial Truetype font 
and ordinary fonts.  What is does is print the letters of text with huge 
spaces between them.  It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to 
be really annoying.  I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic 
mozilla problem.  Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12

Thanks,  Rob.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

[znx]

Hi,

Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

Cheers

On 14/10/05, Rob <europa100@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port.
> It is not rendering text correctly.  I have tried Arial Truetype font
> and ordinary fonts.  What is does is print the letters of text with huge
> spaces between them.  It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to
> be really annoying.  I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic
> mozilla problem.  Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12
>
> Thanks,  Rob.
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ HOWTO disaster

[Rob]

znx wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine:
>http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
>
>Cheers
>
>On 14/10/05, Rob <europa100@comcast.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port.
>>It is not rendering text correctly.  I have tried Arial Truetype font
>>and ordinary fonts.  What is does is print the letters of text with huge
>>spaces between them.  It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to
>>be really annoying.  I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic
>>mozilla problem.  Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12
>>
>>Thanks,  Rob.
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>>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
Well, after attempting to use the HOWTO Xorg and Fonts, I am worse off 
than when I started.  Web pages still do not render.  I had to hack the 
Windowmaker config files so that it would use fonts that it could find. 
Otherwise it would abort. The previous fonts that it used are no longer 
accessible. I have no idea where they are.

Now I can't use the Windowmaker config utility as a regular user as I 
suppose it can no longer find it.  I have no idea why that would be 
happening.

I do not understand why it now takes 12 pages of modifications just to 
have fonts render correctly.  I have installed Gentoo in the past and 
everything just worked.  No modifications of anything had to be 
performed.  This is really a huge step backwards.

I am pretty certain that the last installation of Gentoo I did used Xorg.

I am tempted to just reinstall everything.

Rob
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote
> I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. 
> It is not rendering text correctly.  I have tried Arial Truetype font 
> and ordinary fonts.  What is does is print the letters of text with huge 
> spaces between them.  It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to 
> be really annoying.  I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic 
> mozilla problem.  Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12

Problem
=======
  I had the exact same problem in Firefox.  What's happening is that you
are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S*
fonts, so what you do has no effect.

Solution
========
  The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different.  In Firefox, it
was as follows...

Edit
Preferences
General
Fonts & Colors

  Near the bottom of the "Fonts & Colors" tab, check the option...
Always use my: [X] Fonts

  Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ solved

[Rob]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote
> 
>>I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. 
>>It is not rendering text correctly.  I have tried Arial Truetype font 
>>and ordinary fonts.  What is does is print the letters of text with huge 
>>spaces between them.  It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to 
>>be really annoying.  I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic 
>>mozilla problem.  Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12
> 
> 
> Problem
> =======
>   I had the exact same problem in Firefox.  What's happening is that you
> are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S*
> fonts, so what you do has no effect.
> 
> Solution
> ========
>   The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different.  In Firefox, it
> was as follows...
> 
> Edit
> Preferences
> General
> Fonts & Colors
> 
>   Near the bottom of the "Fonts & Colors" tab, check the option...
> Always use my: [X] Fonts
> 
>   Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect.
> 

Actually, the solution for me was to get rid of the mozilla-bin port and
compile it from scratch.  Evidently mozilla-bin has some integration
problems with Xorg, etc.  Then it doesn't matter what that "Allow
documents to use other fonts" setting is.  My test web page was
www.msnbc.com.  Mozilla-bin totally barfs on this page, whereas the
compiled version renders everything correctly.

I only have one problem left.  Windowmaker starts up (when I am just a
regular user) then aborts because it can't find one of the TrueType
fonts.  That font directory is set in xorg.conf, but I am afraid the
problem is in the /etc/fonts directory.  I just don't have enough
experience working with those config files to get TrueType fonts set up
right.

But I have made good progress!  I am happy about that.

Rob.
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