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cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Firefox 3 Beta 2 Font Error

Can anyone fix this?
Using qt-gtk engine

l(chris@myhost)-(Sun Dec 23 - 04:09 PM)->
m-(~/.build/firefox3)-> firefox3

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sans L 0'

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sans L 0'

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Nimbus Sans L 0', text='English Hello'

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with null font argument, expect ugly output
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so [/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sans L Bold 0'

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sans L Bold 0'

(gecko:29217): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Nimbus Sans L Bold 0', text='English Hello'

Screenshot:
Firefox 3 and Swiftweasel / firefox 2 (how I want the fonts to look)

Notice the fonts in the menu are kind of bold.
Thanks, Chris.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Firefox 3 Beta 2 Font Error

I use cairo-cleartype fonts package in the AUR and I DO NOT get such a warning. Maybe you should try those fonts instead.

lenni

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 95

Re: Firefox 3 Beta 2 Font Error

I have a related problem with FF3. It does not use the system cairo libraries to render fonts but has it´s own version shipped with it and does not obey GNOME font rendering settings, i.e subpixel rendering optimised for LCDs. There's a bug in Moyilla's bug tracker:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406148

Have you tried to edit the UserChrome.css? Here are some instructions:

http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/userChrome.html

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cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Re: Firefox 3 Beta 2 Font Error

Thanks I'll take a look at cairo-cleartype or wait for the bug to be fixed.