Disable Font Smoothing
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Disable Font Smoothing
It looks like Firefox 10 reintroduced font smoothing, and now my eyes are paying the price. Before the update, I disabled font smoothing by setting gfx.direct2d.disabled=false, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. A lot of fonts that look better aliased (Courier, for instance) are now blobby messes. Is there anything I can do about this?
- dfoulkes
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
I've got mine set to true in this Win7 sys. and have no problems with clear fonts. Have you set your ClearType settings in your Winy7?
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartypeinfo.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartypeinfo.mspx
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- dfoulkes
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Disabled?
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Yes, disabled. I want to disable font smoothing in Firefox.
In XP, Display Properties > Appearance > Effects > "Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen fonts:" Unchecked.
In XP, Display Properties > Appearance > Effects > "Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen fonts:" Unchecked.
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Let me see if I can illustrate this better.
This is what I WANT (as shown in Wordpad)
This is what Firefox displays
This is what I WANT (as shown in Wordpad)
This is what Firefox displays
- Dingler
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Try about:config > gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 2
(restart Firefox)
(restart Firefox)
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
According to https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ ... l.js#l1756 you can try setting gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode to 1.
This is what I get when setting it to 1, with both Win7 cleartype and Firefox's hardware acceleration on.
This is what I get when setting it to 1, with both Win7 cleartype and Firefox's hardware acceleration on.
- Dingler
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 1 (aliased), 2 (GDI Classic, as in XP)
So 1 appears to be the good value.
So 1 appears to be the good value.
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
No luck there either.
To summarize, I'm on Windows XP, Using Firefox 10, with Hardware Acceleration Disabled, gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 1, and gfx.direct2d.disabled=true
To summarize, I'm on Windows XP, Using Firefox 10, with Hardware Acceleration Disabled, gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 1, and gfx.direct2d.disabled=true
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
I have a suspicion that Firefox is replacing all instances of "Courier" with "Courier New", and is probably doing the same with other fonts. Any ideas on what to do in this direction?
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Okay, so Firefox is indeed replacing Courier with Courier New. I deleted the Courier New fonts from the C:\Windows\Fonts directory, and the font is working properly.
Now, is there a less drastic way of keeping Firefox from replacing Courier with Courier New?
Now, is there a less drastic way of keeping Firefox from replacing Courier with Courier New?
- dfoulkes
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Re: Disable Font Smoothing
Have you by chance checked on Options/Content and reviewed what is set in there for fonts?... including the Advanced section?
Last edited by dfoulkes on February 17th, 2012, 8:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
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