Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

[Erwin J. Prinz]

Tom:

Based on your picture, either antialiasing is not enabled or the fonts you chose can't be antialiased. When font is antialiased, it has greyish pixels around the black pixels belonging to characters. The greyish pixels compensate for the lack of complete alignment of the character shapes with the "pixel boundaries" of your display. I have installed packages from the mozilla ftp site which result in anti-aliased text. The packages are:

mozilla-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-chat-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-devel-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-js-debugger-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-mail-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-devel-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nss-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nss-devel-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-psm-1.2b-2002101622_trunk_xft.i386.rpm

When installed, they replace the "psyche" mozilla packages.
I had to change some preferences for mozilla by adding a file:
/home/erwin/.mozilla/default/0xxxxxxs.slt/chrome/userChrome.css
according to the instructions in
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

See my screenshot at
http://home.austin.rr.com/prinz/Screenshot.png

Best regards, Erwin