Smooth fonts in thunderbird

how can i enable smooth fonts in thunderbird ?
i think is a xulrunner issue because system fonts are smooth and only in thunderbird aren't....
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Smooth fonts in oracle forms - Antiallias (how)

Is there a way to display fonts with antiallias filter(smoother fonts?)
regards
Peter
Edited by: Peterv6i on Mar 10, 2011 2:35 PM

Wouah, impressed..... decompiled frmall.jar package step by step to port Forms engine to be run as stand alone application over java webstart and to change some "visual" components GUI... (design, icons, colors ...) is probably the craziest thing I ever read so far in this forum.....
For sure you will find help from gurus and oracle for your project in this forum ....... Are you making fun of us ?
You must be a java expert to play with about 1000 form classes and well organized in your development, so why don't you just write your application in swing or in whatever you want instead of using poor old awt forms java classes ..... You will probably spend less time then trying to re-invent the forms-wheel and replace alone the whole Forms development team.
ok that's enough for me today...
this thread is just simply unbelievable and silly
Jean-Yves

How to change default font in Thunderbird interface

I know this question has been asked and discussed at length, but creating a question appears to be the only way to create an account. If there is another way, please tell.
To the question at hand, relying on an add-on for a simple configuration change such as modifying the UI font is really stretching things. I spent ages trolling through all the options in the default installation, and then went googling before I eventually found the add-on.
I'm surprised it took so long to get the actual message across; perhaps it was ppl thinking differently, using different OSes, I don't know, but I recognized it straight away because it was exactly what I was trying to do. Change the font of the entire UI so that I could actually read it. The default is way too small for me. Changing the message text, etc., is simple; changing the entire UI is not. And again, don't want to change every app, only Thunderbird. I'm using Fedora 21.
It might be worth considering that if so many ppl ask the same question, or have the same issue, then it might be worth making the "extension" part of the base functionality.

Use the Theme Font Size Changer add-on.
That's the answer, unless you choose to fiddle with css coding. I think Thunderbird's design has been caught out by newer high resolution displays. This was a rather less common request a few years ago. The mac retina displays got this particular ball rolling.

Too small UI fonts at Thunderbird [SOLVED]

Then fonts are unreadably small - here is a screenshot:
The same small fonts are all over the UI - in menus and other items. How could I fix them?

A frequent question of mine too. Happily, you can override the defaults if you don't like them.
To change the general UI font, you need to create a file called userChrome.css in the Chrome subdirectory of your ~/.thunderbird directory. In this file, you can specify any font you want. This file can be quite large and so I won't post it here. If you simply google "userChrome.css" you will find many, many examples. If you have Firefox installed, look in its embedded Chrome directory. Mine has a file called userChrome-example.css. Copy this to ~/.thunderbird's chrome folder and customize to your hearts content. It works quite well.
To change the font used for message composition, go to Edit, Preferences, Fonts. Oddly, to set the *color* of that font, you have to go elsewhere. Go to Edit, Preferences, Composition, HTML Options, Text Color. Here you can set both the foreground and background colors.

Font smoothing, font sizing, sub-pixel tuning, OS X vs Windows

I have a query regarding font the font smoothing implementation in OS X.
Having just come from the Windows world (using ClearType) naturally comparisons will be made. I am trying to get fonts looking as readable as possible on my Mac. I have 19" LCD connected via DVI so would expect no issues there. It seems difficult to get fonts looking... crisp. I am starting from the basis of using font smoothing across the board as recommended. Turn off smoothing is set to font size 8 or smaller.
I note with respect to tuning of font smoothing (anti-aliasing) that there is not a 'fine tuning' tool like as made available on Windows...
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx
for the Mac. At least I can't find anything Googling. And I am not thinking of TinkerTool as that is not a fine tuner. The Windows ClearType tuner can really make a noticeable difference by adjusting the sub-pixel tuning. Is there any equivalent tool/configuration option available for Macs?

You must have extremely good vision to be able to
tell the enhacement made by ClearType on XGA or
better displays. I wish my eyesight is as good as
yours.
Well by your own admission you must be half blind, and I think you must be if you can't see the difference between - and let's be precise about this - no anti-aliasing vs. anti-aliasing +- sub-pixel rendering. Whether on Windows and/or OS X. There is.
Subpixel rendering is a trick used when resolution of
displays are challenged and small font readability is
crucial.
Today, the only place this makes sense is on
cell phones when you are trying to render small type
like a webpage.
I believe the website links I posted show that I have a reasonable grasp of what sub-pixel rendering is, that was not the purpose of my question. Also, actually, you are incorrect when you state that sub-pixel rendering is relevant/necessary only for small fonts. The exact opposite is true - usually sub-pixel rendering (including in OS X) is turned off for small fonts because it tends to make them more unreadable.
On desktop displays today at XGA or greater resolution,
the tradeoff in enhancing a bit in resolution is
outweighed by the added computation cycles needed to
filter the entire display so the eye sees "grey" on
average rather than red or green or blue.
Well you better rush and tell Apple to rip it out of OS X... because they seem to disagree with you as both anti-aliasing and sub-pixel rendering are included, and encouraged to be used, in OS X!
I'm sorry, but your statements are just plainly wrong and unconsidered.
Back to my - still unanswered, factual and valid question. The implementation of anti-aliasing + sub-pixel rendering in OS X does not appear, and I am stating this unbiasedly, to be as good as it could be (as I have seen in Windows). BTW this is not solely my finding as a number of very experienced Mac users have pointed out:
Here...
http://www.michelf.com/weblog/2006/subpixel-antialiasing-achilles-heel/
and here...
http://www.betalogue.com/2006/01/24/pages-20-does-not-fix-font-smoothing-issue/
and here...
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2006/02/04/font-smoothing-in-pages/
I gather from the replies I have received thus far, and from research on the Internet, that there is currently no way - going into Unix config files or by some utility - to address this issue. Hopefully it will be improved in a later version of OS X.
BTW - this does not stop me loving my new Mac!

Losing contrast and fonts in Thunderbird.

I usually keep my 20" iMac at 1680 x 1050. but there are times when I need to drop it down a notch to 1344 x 840. When I do all the text in my Safari, e.g., becomes very fuzzy. I realize it's at lower resolution but it seems that there should be a way to sharpen it a bit.
I also noticed today that when I switched back to 1680 x 1050 the contrast between regular fonts and bold fonts seems to have dropped, the bold seems too light.
I noticed the difference between normal and bold fonts in my mail reader, I use Thunderbird. I also noticed that my Thunderbird was missing the complete list of fonts I have loaded. This happened once before and restarting brought back the fonts and the contrast.
Any idea as to why this would happen or is this better discussed in a Thunderbird group?
Thanks, Rob

In the +good ol'+ days of CRTs (I actually still use a 21-inch flat-screen CRT), you could vary the size each pixel on the screen. Therefore, when you changed the resolution, the image stayed sharp.
With LCDs, the physical size of each pixel is fixed. Therefore, it is only really sharp at the native resolution. For the 20" iMac, it's 1680 x 1050. When you use a lower resolution, the system fudges the pixels to approximate the new resolution, but since it cannot change the size of each physical pixel on the screen, it will be fuzzy.
I don't use Thunderbird, but you may want to run the +Font Book+ application and see if those fonts got disabled for some reason.
Also, if you have not done it recently, run Disk Utility and use the +Repair Disk Permissions+ routine on your startup volume.

I want to make all fonts in Thunderbird (GUI?) smaller, including messages.

Just today, all font sizes jumped up.
I don't know why, but these fonts are too large---they make my screen too crowded, the number of messages listed is too small, same for lines of each message.

Have you tried rebooting your computer?

How can I get clearer, smoother fonts?

Hi again. You guys helped me out so well with my last question that i know you'll be able to help me out with this one!
How can I make my fonts look as clear as possible?
I'm running at 1400x1050 resolution with xorg and xfce4.
I've ensured that anti-aliasing is turned on and have enabled sub-pixel hinting but I find that my fonts appear "fuzzy".
Excuse me for mentioning the 'W' work here but my Windows XP installation with ClearType enabled gives me lovely clear fonts and I was hoping to get the same in Linux.
When I installed xorg (or was that xfce4? I forget) a message was displayed on screen referring to uncommenting a line in a config file somewhere for anti-aliasing or hinting, but I foolishly didn't note it down so I don't know what it was or where to find it! Or even if this would help me.
How have you managed to make your fonts nice and clear?

cyberfrem wrote:When I installed xorg (or was that xfce4? I forget) a message was displayed on screen referring to uncommenting a line in a config file somewhere for anti-aliasing or hinting, but I foolishly didn't note it down so I don't know what it was or where to find it! Or even if this would help me.
thats is in /etc/fonts/local.conf, autohinter to false. Subpixel is in there as well.
You may also want to double check your xorg.conf is correct.

Font Smoothing in LabView for Linux

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has been able to get their fonts in LabView for Linux to be either smoothed using Gnomes subpixel smoother for LCDs, or any other type of anti-aliasing. I currently can use truetype fonts in LabView, and for the most part they do look pretty decent.. btu they are not smoothed at all. Every single application I have loaded has smooth fonts other than LabView. Please let me know if anyone has managed to get this working... and if so, how.
I am currently using Gentoo with all of my packages updated less than a month ago, with LabView 8.2
Thanks for any info!

Unfortunately, we do not support fonts on your operating system. Hopefully another customer is more familiar with this.
Message Edited by Support on 10-04-2007 01:33 PM
Charlie M. CLD

EVERYTHING is too small in Thunderbird. How do I increase the font size of everything!

It's ridiculous that Thunderbird requires an "add on" download to enable making the font size larger on EVERYTHING in the Thunderbird email program. What is Thunderbird thinking making everything so small you can barely see it?!
There has got to be a better way!!!
Please increase the size of the fonts on your program. (I know I can change the fonts and type style on outgoing emails. That's not the problem I want EVERYTHING LARGER! I want to see what I type in a message the same as my recipient will read it!

Zenos, thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I have read those same comments before. In my mind, there shouldn't be an "add on" necessary to change the font size type of the entire interface of Thunderbird if desired. And to have to write "css code?" --- that's ridiculous!
No, I don't care what font and style my RECIPIENTS view my emails --- that's their prerogative. What I want to change is how I see everything on Thunderbird, from the interface to what I'm typing in an email. The font in Thunderbird for everything is so small it's ridiculous, and to not be able to change it is awful. What was/is Mozilla thinking?!
I may just totally bail on Thunderbird for this reason (I was an old Eudora user). With all the complaints I notice, I would think Mozilla would fix this problem in Thunderbird and add the capability to change how the interface is viewed in the Thunderbird program without needing "add ons." I am wary of downloading add-ons since several users have complained about conflicts in other areas of their computer usage.
So here's my plea to Mozilla --- Please fix this problem and make your Thunderbird email interface with larger default fonts!!!

Deactivated Subpixel Font Smoothing In Safari

I was reading an apple technical note ( https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/technotes/tn2220/_index.html ) within the Safari browser and noticed that the text font did not appear to be smoothed. I confirmed the fact by zooming and making note of the lack of color within the letter which is a sure marker of font smoothing. Late that day I noticed the same thing in the Harmony Central Forums ( http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Electric-Guitars/Review-NGD-Xavier-XV-500-Pics- and-Recording/m-p/29888705/highlight/true#M3683950 ). I then opened the same pages in both Firefox and Chrome, both of with rendered the text using subpixel font smoothing. One further thing that stuck me as odd is that Safari does use subpixel rendering on certain pages, such as the text in this forum. I have searched for an option to turn subpixel smoothing on within the Safari preferences, but had no luck along that route.
I don't think this has anything to do with it but I thought I would mention that I have the "Use LCD Font Smoothing" within the General System Preferences set to Level 2 (done with a terminal command). edit- I actually just set LCD Font Smooth to the standard (bolder) on setting and then restarted Safari. It made the text that was previously smoothed dark, but had no effect on the previously (and still) un-smoothed text.
I was hoping someone could tell me what is going on here and how to activate subpixel smoothing within Safari, because I like the browser and the way smoothed fonts look.
(I am using Mavericks, Safari 7, Chrome 31 and Firefox 25)

Unfortunately, we do not support fonts on your operating system. Hopefully another customer is more familiar with this.
Message Edited by Support on 10-04-2007 01:33 PM
Charlie M. CLD

Get font smoothing in Wine

Well, I already released the newest wine package (1.1.12) to extra. The most interesting feature in this release, for me, is the font smoothing support. Maybe you have noticed that after installing the latest version, still no smooth fonts were used, this is because of the option not being enabled by default. For if you want to use this feature:
nano wine_fontsmoothing.reg
paste this in the file you just opened for writing:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
then, as user:
regedit wine_fontsmoothing.reg
Now launch winecfg, or any of your installed applications through wine, and there you have it. I'm still working out a way to get better smooth fonts, this ones hurt my eyes since the are sub-pixel, and look blueish to me. Any suggestions or help on this is greatly appreciated, I just wanted to get the ball rolling.

userlander wrote:
wow, that really messed up my wine functionality. The only app I use in wine is ImgBurn, and now even after removing the font lines from user.reg the splash screen font looks all ugly, and then the application just locks up. I have to kill it with xkill. How can I fix this now? Did it mess up the registry somehow?
--------------------> okay, fixed it. I tried writing the original .reg file back to the registry, it gave a lot of errors, but it seems to work now. splash screen font is still fuged. not sure what's up with that, might be the WM. just glad to have ImgBurn working again.
Well, this is a limitation from the only font smoothing option wine has so far, here i hope that this will improve eventually.

Wine font smoothing acting very strange...

I'm using bin32_wine and lib32-catalyst-utils from the AUR (10.5) and I edited the smooth font registry keys (I'm using Arch x86_64). This is quite odd to me, and I don't know what to do, but it doesn't want to work properly.
That's the only place in WINE that the smoothing actually shows.
I don't know if this is a WINE problem or my actual setup.
Last edited by RetroX (2010-06-05 01:59:10)

Again, please remove your auto-signature when replying by email.
Let's try a couple of diagnostic experiments, please.
First, create a new user account onthe mac and log in with that and tell us if there is a change in behavior in ID.
Second, try starting in with extensions disabled by holding down the Shift key while booting the Mac. Does that make a difference?
Do you run any sort of utilities -- anti-virus, Mac Keeper, etc.?

Bold fonts on certain websites - font smoothing woes

Hi,
I purchased a 13" MacBook Pro last week and I'm having a bit of an issue regarding font smoothing/font rendering on certain websites. I'll do my best to try and explain...
When loading certain websites (mainly vBulletin-based forums, but this happens on quite a few other sites too) the text looks bold and ugly, the same sites look fine on my friends 15" MacBook Pro and 24" iMac - as an example, his looks like the sample on the left and mine looks like the sample on the right:
http://i47.tinypic.com/e7b8ro.jpg (not my screenshot, but my issue is exactly the same)
I've done some searching and other people have fixed this problem using the following command:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3
This basically changes the hidden font smoothing settings which were removed in 10.6, in 10.5 you had the following options to choose from:
Automatic - Best for Main Display
Standard - Best for CRT (1)
Light (2)
Medium - Best for Flat Panel (3)
Strong (4)
If I set the command above to 1, 2 or 3 my fonts don't change at all and still look bold and horrible. If I set the command to "4" (Strong), do the usual log out and back in, then I get the correct looking fonts on the websites I had issues with BUT my system fonts and other websites now have a very soft, almost out of focus font, probably due to this being the Strong smoothing setting. Likewise if I set the command to "0" (turning font smoothing off) I get the correct looking fonts on the problematic websites but again system fonts look odd, not nice and smooth (due to font smoothing being turned off)
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can try next please? Could this be down to the resolution/DPI of the 13" MBP's screen?
Thanks,
Verta

Hey! I had exactly the same issue as you! Do you have an addon called WebSecurityKeeper installed into your Firefox, without your permission? Check your Addons list pls. I had this addon and when I uninstalled it, my fonts in Firefox returned to normal.
Its possibly a malicious addon. But I am not sure. I have no idea how it got installed my computer.

Bold fonts on certain websites - font smoothing gone wild?

Hi,
I purchased a 13" MacBook Pro last week and I'm having a bit of an issue regarding font smoothing/font rendering on certain websites. I'll do my best to try and explain...
When loading certain websites (mainly vBulletin-based forums, but this happens on quite a few other sites too) the text looks bold and ugly, the same sites look fine on my friends 15" MacBook Pro and 24" iMac - as an example, his looks like the sample on the left and mine looks like the sample on the right:
http://i47.tinypic.com/e7b8ro.jpg (not my screenshot, but my issue is exactly the same)
I've done some searching and other people have fixed this problem using the following command:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3
This basically changes the hidden font smoothing settings which were removed in 10.6, in 10.5 you had the following options to choose from:
Automatic - Best for Main Display
Standard - Best for CRT (1)
Light (2)
Medium - Best for Flat Panel (3)
Strong (4)
If I set the command above to 1, 2 or 3 my fonts don't change at all and still look bold and horrible. If I set the command to "4" (Strong), do the usual log out and back in, then I get the correct looking fonts on the websites I had issues with BUT my system fonts and other websites now have a very soft, almost out of focus font, probably due to this being the Strong smoothing setting. Likewise if I set the command to "0" (turning font smoothing off) I get the correct looking fonts on the problematic websites but again system fonts look odd, not nice and smooth (due to font smoothing being turned off)
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can try next please? Could this be down to the resolution/DPI of the 13" MBP's screen?
Thanks,
Verta
Message was edited by: Verta

Hey! I had exactly the same issue as you! Do you have an addon called WebSecurityKeeper installed into your Firefox, without your permission? Check your Addons list pls. I had this addon and when I uninstalled it, my fonts in Firefox returned to normal.
Its possibly a malicious addon. But I am not sure. I have no idea how it got installed my computer.

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