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#1 2011-09-21 09:31:02

hunterthomson
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[SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

Boy owe boy, I have been useing Archlinux for . . . like 3 years now, and I have never been able to get the fonts to look right. I was useing OpenSuse for school for a month or too, and man fonts CAN look really good on Linux.

I know Arch is the best because I set it all up (and other reasons) but it sure would be nice if there was a package that just installed a set of good fonts and 'configured them'. Anyone have some scripts that they use to get them looking good?

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#2 2011-09-21 09:37:12

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

$ yaourt -S cairo-ubuntu

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#3 2011-09-21 10:03:02

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

Hay, Thanks smile

They look perfict now. Just what I was looking for. Still some weirdness in firefox, seems like the anti-aliasing is not working in it. Everything looks good other then that tough. The menu text in firefox is looking good so I don't think it is a GTK thing; I'm using KDE. But hay, only one problem left now. I could even live with this.

Well I'll just mark this thread as solved. The firefox thing seems to be it's own deal. Agin BIG Mahalo smile

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#4 2011-09-22 10:10:57

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

YES !!!!!! I now have FIXED ALL my fonts smile I am soooo happy.

Ya, Install that package which gets 90% of the job done. Then to get anti-aliasing, hinting, lcdfilter, and rgba working in LibreOffice, FireFox, and all the other odds and ends by doing this.

Edit file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf

Cut n Past this into it, and logout/login and ALL will be fixed:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
      <const>lcddefault</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

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#5 2011-09-22 14:50:34

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

I prefer freetype2-infinality with its local.conf and Xresources. Also i use ttf-tahoma and ttf-win7-fonts because without those some websites still looks ugly. With ubuntu packages fonts look too blurry/fat for me.

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#6 2011-09-22 15:06:53

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:: Registered Linux User No. 223384

:: github
:: infinality-bundle+fonts: good looking fonts made easy

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#7 2011-09-22 16:55:40

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

2b honest...do u wanna nicest fonts? ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13030

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#8 2011-09-22 17:00:01

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

unknwn wrote:

I prefer freetype2-infinality with its local.conf and Xresources. Also i use ttf-tahoma and ttf-win7-fonts because without those some websites still looks ugly. With ubuntu packages fonts look too blurry/fat for me

ttf-win7-fonts

Thumb up 'pal'!
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50762

http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

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#9 2011-09-23 00:30:44

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

Ya, the fonts do seem fat, but I have a 1920x1080 rez 15.4" screen, so the extra little fatness looks good on my screen.

I do have the ttf-tahoma and ttf-ms-fonts installed. I just feel dirty using them and just installing them was not enough to get nice fonts. The cairo-ubuntu package did a bunch of other stuff to help configure the fonts too. It was only missing that one /etc/fonts/local.conf file.

Thanks for all the suggestions though, and keep them coming if you have more. I am sure I'll forget this stuff and need to reference this thread the next time I do a clean install.


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#10 2011-09-23 04:47:21

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

Hi hunterthomson,
Maybe it is better to use "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf" instead, i did not try it because i like my setup, but it is the way it should be.


O' rly ? Ya rly Oo

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#11 2011-09-23 11:18:18

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

hunterthomson wrote:

Ya, the fonts do seem fat, but I have a 1920x1080 rez 15.4" screen, so the extra little fatness looks good on my screen.

I do have the ttf-tahoma and ttf-ms-fonts installed. I just feel dirty using them and just installing them was not enough to get nice fonts. The cairo-ubuntu package did a bunch of other stuff to help configure the fonts too. It was only missing that one /etc/fonts/local.conf file.

Thanks for all the suggestions though, and keep them coming if you have more. I am sure I'll forget this stuff and need to reference this thread the next time I do a clean install.

Have you tried freetype2-infinality with it's local.conf? I suggest to try if you haven't.
One thing more for those who use ms fonts. Some fonts look ugly when i use ttf-ms-fonts or ttf-win7-fonts (must be tahoma in those packages?) together with infinality paches. When i also install separate ttf-tahoma package together with mentioned packages problem disappears.

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#12 2011-09-23 11:20:32

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Re: [SOLVED] [EVEN FireFox, LibreOffice] Font config is a pain in the

cybertorture wrote:

Hi hunterthomson,
Maybe it is better to use "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf" instead, i did not try it because i like my setup, but it is the way it should be.

Owe ya, I didn't see that. I changed it. Thanks

cat /etc/fonts/local.conf > /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf ; rm /etc/fonts/local.conf

unknwn wrote:

Have you tried freetype2-infinality with it's local.conf? I suggest to try if you haven't.
One thing more for those who use ms fonts. Some fonts look ugly when i use ttf-ms-fonts or ttf-win7-fonts (must be tahoma in those packages?) together with infinality paches. When i also install separate ttf-tahoma package together with mentioned packages problem disappears.

Maybe I will try that, but I am flying to Chicago on Monday and don't want to get things mucked up for the trip.

Last edited by hunterthomson (2011-09-23 11:32:00)


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