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Howto Fix Firefox 3.5's Font Hinting Problem on Ubuntu

As you know Firefox 3.5 is released yesterday(You can read my blog post about it here.).But unlike Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.5 takes its font hinting orders from fontconfig instead of gnome's font settings.I am using medium, subpixel hinting in gnome, but my firefox fonts were using slight, greyscale hinting.This is what i did to fix my problem (I found them somewhere at ubuntuforums dot org):

$sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
$sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-no-sub-pixel.conf
$sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-hinting-medium.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
$sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
$sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

You can also browse the bug report on Launchpad here.

5 comments:

Thomas Babut said...

Hi,

Thanks for the tip, but the correct directory should be /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ instead of /etc/fonts/conf.available/!

Binbash said...

Yes, thanks for the warning.The post is fixed.

Anonymous said...

Great Helpful Post.
Thatnk You!

PuKi said...

Very good post man!

It worked very well for me. ;)


PS: Sorry my english, im just learning.

kamagra said...

Yes, thanks for the warning.The post is fixed.

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