Bug 89545 - Option needed to disable anti-aliased fonts
Summary: Option needed to disable anti-aliased fonts
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mozilla
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Blizzard
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-24 03:05 UTC by Steve Tate
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-06-02 14:26:15 UTC
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Description Steve Tate 2003-04-24 03:05:44 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:

mozilla really needs an option to turn off anti-aliasing of fonts.  I have had
mixed experiences with anti-aliasing on various systems and various apps, and
unfortunately anti-aliased fonts on my work system in mozilla look like crap. 
Not a big deal if I could disable them, but I couldn't find a way to do that.  I
don't want to disable gnome/gtk-wide, since they look ok in some applications.

I ended up downgrading to the mozilla from RedHat 8, which works fine, but if
all future versions of mozilla are going to have non-deselectable anti-aliasing,
then I'm not going to be able to use newer versions, and that bothers me.....



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.2.1-26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run mozilla
2.Look in either awe or disgust at anti-aliased fonts
3..... Profit!
    

Expected Results:  
I would expect a checkbox in the "Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts" options to
allow me to disable anti-aliasing!

Additional info:

Comment 1 schiebe 2003-04-28 19:45:07 UTC
Yes! Please make a option where you can disable anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla.

Comment 2 Christopher Blizzard 2003-05-05 17:29:22 UTC
Put GDK_USE_XFT=0 in your environment before running mozilla.

Comment 3 Steve Tate 2003-05-05 19:44:41 UTC
Unfortunately, this gives one step forward, and one step back, so
doesn't really fix the problem.  It made the web pages display fine, but
all text inside any basic widgets was too tiny to read.  This means text
on buttons in the tool bar, and text on buttons and input fields in the
browser (for example, text in the input field for Google was too small
to read).  None of the Font settings seems to affect this at all, so now
I'm back to mozilla 1.0.1 again....

Comment 4 Christopher Blizzard 2003-06-02 14:26:15 UTC
There's an upstream bug filed.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176334

Comment 5 Barry K. Nathan 2003-08-04 14:43:17 UTC
GDK_USE_XFT=0 does the trick on a Severn+rawhide system. I haven't tried it on 
a Red Hat 9 system, however. 

Comment 6 Barry K. Nathan 2003-08-04 14:44:29 UTC
GDK_USE_XFT=0 does the trick on a Severn+rawhide system. I haven't tried it on  
a Red Hat 9 system, however. 

Comment 7 Barry K. Nathan 2003-08-04 14:45:16 UTC
(oops, sorry about the double post) 


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