[SOLVED] Firefox ugly font rendering

Question

Hello,
straight to the point
Chrome:
http://i.imgur.com/GpjpYqo.png
Firefox:
http://i.imgur.com/PYH7pua.png
This happens only on some websites, and the workarounds found in the wiki articles[1] don't work for me.
I don't know if this is helpful, if you need more information just ask:
ls /etc/fonts/conf.d
10-autohint.conf 20-unhint-small-vera.conf 40-nonlatin.conf 51-local.conf 60-latin.conf 80-delicious.conf
20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 45-latin.conf 57-dejavu-sans.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf 90-synthetic.conf
20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf 30-metric-aliases.conf 49-sansserif.conf 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf 65-nonlatin.conf README
20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf 30-urw-aliases.conf 50-user.conf 57-dejavu-serif.conf 69-unifont.conf
I don't have any fonts/local.conf nor .fonts.conf in ~.
Someone knows how to troubleshoot/resolve this?
Thanks
[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_Tweaks
Last edited by tilde (2013-04-17 08:44:32)

Answer 1

brebs wrote:
Looks like you want these fontconfig options, from Infinality's config:
<!-- Prevent Gnome from using embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri -->
<match target="font">
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>
<!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
<match target="font">
<selectfont><rejectfont><pattern>
<patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
</pattern></rejectfont></selectfont>
</match>
<!-- Substitute truetype fonts for bitmap ones -->
<match target="font">
<edit name="prefer_outline"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
Thanks for sharing this! Your solution works almost perfectly. However, I get regularly the following terminal output (warning messages):
Fontconfig warning: "local.conf", line 36: No <test> nor <edit> elements in <match>
...which Should be simple to fix. However, forgive me. I'm not very familiar with the code itself. Any quick help is appreciated.
The problematic code string states as follows:
<!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
<match target="font">
<selectfont><rejectfont><pattern>
<patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
</pattern></rejectfont></selectfont>
</match>