284617 - Bad fonts after an upgrade

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Woodward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7.5

I was using 1.7.2 (Supplied by Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack) and everything worked
great. 

The image in the URL is the two versions side by side. 1.7.5 on the left, 1.7.2
on the right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install 1.7.5 on mandrake
run

Actual Results:  
Fonts are not being used

Expected Results:  
Fonts should work like 1.7,2

The fonts are so bad, I can't even read pages

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Screenshots should be attached to the bug, not put as URL.

Which 1.7.5 did you install? You cannot expect good results on Mandrake 10.x
from the standard mozilla.org build, which is a gtk1 build. On recent Mandrakes
you need a gtk2+xft build, which is what Mandrake's rpms are, or one from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/contrib/
that has linux and xft in its filename. Verify you are using a correct build via
urlbar 'about:buildconfig' to find "--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2" and
"--enable-xft". See also http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html#build-type

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Mark Woodward:

Please reply to the questions in comment 1
(reply on web in form for "Additional Comments:" - the bug URL is at top of the
mail you get.)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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