Ugly (non-antialiased) Fonts

Hi,
I am annoyed with Xorg 100/75 dpi fonts that is being used by some sites like this:
http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?n … le&sid=831
I use firefox 1.0.4
In other distro, this does not happen.
And in kcontrol fonts manager, I see a lot of non-antialiased/bitmap fonts scattered and one of them Helvetica which I suspect the site is using it since when I deleted it, firefox crash when I refresh the page. But after reloading firefox the same webpage uses antialiased fonts.
Somehow the ugly (bitmap) fonts gets priority when that webpage is shown. Maybe the webpage uses Helvetica as its fonts.
But I cannot delete all those ugly bitmap fonts, my gnucash needs the bitmap Helvetica fonts and it crashes when I deleted those bitmap fonts.
What can I do?
I never see this kind of problem in Fedora, Ubuntu or Suse. I see similar problem in FreeBSD but it dissapear when I portinstall Xfst.
Anyone had similar problem and maybe some solutions?
Thanks.
Jerry

Yep, you are right.
It should work that way. But I don't understand why helvetica is bitmap font and it is not truetype one. I can't check Fedora or Ubuntu. But when I was using it last time, Fedora has a very nice fonts in Gnucash (it should be helvetica) and Ubuntu has not so nice fonts (jagged). Both does not affect the way firefox display fonts. Yes, it's a bit confusing since I cannot give the exact details. I have reformatted both Fedora and Ubuntu and now I am using Arch.
I will try to define font replacement like what you suggest.
I wonder how to make Gnucash to use other fonts. Or whether by overwriting the same helvetica font with truetype will crash Gnucash.
Thanks
Jerry
nggalai wrote:
jery_wang2002 wrote:It just annoy me when something does not work as it is supposed to.
Err, it DOES work as it's supposed to: The web site asks for Helvetica, hence you'll get Helvetica.
FONT {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TD {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
BODY {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
P {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
DIV {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
/* Tweaks */
TABLE {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
A {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
IMG {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
FORM {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TH {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TR {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
If you don't like that, you'll either have to define replacement fonts in your Xorg font configuration (http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/XO … figuration right at the bottom) or do the same thing in Firefox. There was something you can do in your userChrome.css or userContent.css file, but unfortunately I lost the link ...

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