On 17 March 2014 19:27, Mike Wright <mike.wri...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> 03/17/2014 07:49 AM, Tim wrote: > >> Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2014, Mike Wright sent: >> >>> On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but >>> on firefox it is extremely difficult to read. Using firebug I can >>> force it to use sans-serif, which does display nicely. >>> >>> Here's the link to a screen capture: >>> >>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19486401/neue.png >>> >>> that shows the leading vertical edges of n,u,h,p don't display; x is >>> also broken. >>> >> >> That looks like trying to display a font using lines less than one pixel >> wide, and only the anti-aliasing being visible. >> >> Do you have your screen DPI set correctly? You're not using a faked up >> DPI to change font sizing, like some people do. That's the sort of >> problem I'd expect to see from doing stunts like that. >> > > Thanks for responding Tim. > > I haven't mucked with the display settings. Xorg.0.log says my DPI is > 96x96. > > The monitor is a Hanspree Hi221D, 1680x1050. > > Side note: this is the only font I've seen act like this. (Not so sure I > like the idea of a webpage pulling in a font family when we have perfectly > fine fonts provided by fedora ;) > > That web page is using a downloadable font (you can check using the Firefox devtools inspector: right click on the text -> select "inspect element", and open the Fonts tab in the inspector window that'll appear). You can force all web pages to use your own fonts in Firefox, first open Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Advanced and disable "Allow pages to choose their own fonts.... ". Note that this may prevent some pages from disabling correctly as there's a new trend of using "icon fonts", see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789788 > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Ahmad Samir
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