When I try to render a page that has standard, bold and italic text, the whole thing is rendered bold. Using the same font with gdkxft and non-aa gives correct results. The font is Verdana. I'm attaching a screenshot that contains the following html code: standard <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i>

Screenshot of the rendering of: standard <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i>

I see something similar. When turning on FreeType support I see every thing plain, no-bold, no-italic. I don't think this is a i18n issue, I've tried to change it to Layout but I haven't go the bugzilla power to do that.. =)

I see this too. Using freetype2, XFree 3.3.6 and build 2002031121 on Redhat 7.1.

It happens to me too... Too bad, because I was looking forward to see antialiased fonts in Mozilla for a looong time now. Anyway, just delete the bold fonts and you have regular :) I still like it... But it should be fixed.

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-> shanjian, cc'ing bstell

accept.

Another strange thing -- maybe will help fixing.. If you rename the font files you might get different results. E.g., I kinda like the font Verdana. It has 4 files: verdana.ttf (regular) verdanab.ttf (bold) verdanai.ttf (italic) verdanaz.ttf (bold italic, I suppose) With the default names, Mozilla only shows Bold. Renaming them like this: verdana.ttf (regular) --> verdana0.ttf verdanab.ttf (bold) --> verdana1.ttf verdanai.ttf (italic) --> verdana2.ttf verdanaz.ttf (bold italic, I suppose) --> verdana3.ttf Shows only regular font to me... :) Of course, you must delete ~/.mozilla/fonts and restart Mozilla to make sure the changes take effect.

I think this is a bug too much oustanding and strange to a newbie user to be marked as 1.1 target. IMHO it should be marked as 1.0 or this feature should be removed from 1.0, it dosen't even have a configure dialog yet. My vote: fix, or remove for now.

You probably have your preferences out-of-sync with the way FreeType was compiled on your system. Try changing "font.FreeType2.unhinted" from true to false and see if that helps; it fixes it for me.

Yes! This fixes the problem for my. Now the questions: shouldn't this be false by defalt? I mean, when you don't put "font.FreeType2.unhinted" on prefs, it should not be set to false instead of true? Shouldn't this too be on the directions on mozilla 0.9.9 release notes too? I hope someone one day writes a doc with all those wonderfull and hidden preferences of mozilla.

This is important because this is cited as one of the major enhancements in the new release. Either this should be fixed or the release notes should be corrected withdrawing the mention of this feature.

It doesn't work for me. This is now my user.js: pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"); And this is what happens: http://mazinger.technisys.com.ar/pruebas-nick/font-test.html

user_pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); user_pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); user_pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"); Same url, build 2002031121 - maybe this options is post-0.9.9?

It works, but I guess you haven't changed your fonts to the freetype ones. The characters aren't antialiased, while in my example they are.

Yeah, sorry I was in a rush (did I said mysql sucks?). Anyway, I still get bold fonts, but much better with the user_pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); option.

I don't get bold fonts in either case. It remains normal. putting "window, menu, menuitem, toolbarbutton{font-family: sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt !important}" in userChrome.css adds anti-aliasing to almost everything but the problem is that in MailNews you don't see any of the bold which makes it hard to use.

From what I can see.. we can get all bold or no bold... Either case, its quite a big bug... I've abandonned direct freetype use and I switched to blizzard's Xft patch, it already works much better... Shouldn't this be added to the 0.9.9 RelNotes?

-> bstell

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Verified as dup.