Mozilla has the neat innate ability to use the FreeType2 library to render anti-aliased truetype fonts. You point the config file at the directory in which you keep your .tff fonts, and the world is good. FreeType2 also nicely renders and optionally anti-aliases Type1 (as typically used by X servers for scalable fonts) and some other font types. But just dropping Type1 fonts and other random font types into the same directory as the .tff fonts doesn't work; the fonts are skipped with an error when mozilla starts up and scans the directory. It would be nice if I could use my usual X11 Type1 fonts in the same way as I use my truetype fonts. FreeType claims to offer a fairly homogenous interface to accessing various font types, so I imagine that Mozilla's code is already close to having this just work.

Yeah, it might be pretty simple. I'll look into it. Do you have some decent sample fonts to play with?

The scaleable fonts I have are the usual ones that come with XFree86 4, plus the sharefonts package found on gimp.org that you're probably already familiar with.

Does it work in a recent trunk build? http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

This might still be a valid enhancement request; redirecting to Core:Graphics.

We use Freetype for all text rendering on Linux now.