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Dariusz Piatkowski:
This is not specifically a Firefox issue (as best as I can tell) but since it impacts Firefox (17.0.11) only on my machine I'm posting in this group.

Alright...so I've been using Alex's WorkPlace Sans font family for a looooong time...last version was the 0.91 drop...recently I noticed that 1.01 was out...went out, grabbed the bitmap and non-bitmapped versions...installed them on my system (one at a time of course), re-booted, only to scream in horror (well, not quite, but you get the point...LOL) when I saw the nearly illegible Firefox menus once Firefox was restarted.

Through some experimentation I discoverd that changing the custom setting of gfx.os2.font.hinting=3 to something like 2 or 1 makes it look better, but certainly nowhere near what my current 0.91 version looks like with it being set to 3.

So am I missing something on my machine to make this latest font drop work correctly? Or perhaps, do I have some setting somewhere that should be re-set/turned-off?

I certainly have this font specified in my userChrome.css file, here is a section that controls the font and sizing used for the menus and menubar:

=== START ===

/* this controls the MENUBAR entries */
menubar {
  font-family: workplace sans !important;
  font-size: 16px !important;
}

/* this controls the actual listing of MENU headers */
menu {
  font-family: workplace sans !important;
  font-weight: bold !important;
  font-size: 16px !important;
}

....
=== STOP ===

Thanks everyone!
-Dariusz

Dave Yeo:
What happens if you remove your userChrome.css? And what version of mzfntcfgft are you using? I did release a couple of test builds of freetype that might have affects such as this.
Here FF17.0.11 with Alex's latest Workplace Sans looks fine.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Dave!


--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on May 25, 2016, 05:40:28 am ---What happens if you remove your userChrome.css? And what version of mzfntcfgft are you using? I did release a couple of test builds of freetype that might have affects such as this.
Here FF17.0.11 with Alex's latest Workplace Sans looks fine.

--- End quote ---

WarpIn shows version 2.5.4.0 of MZFNTCFGFT_RUNTIME installed...it is dated 31/12/2014. I have a newer ZIP file (mzfntcfgft_runtime_20150829.zip) drop, the included readme states:

=== START ===
This is a build of freetyp2.dll, freetyp6.dll and fntcfg2.dll which are required by various builds of Mozilla and other progams. Updated to freetype 2.60. Dependencies on Z and png dropped.
=== STOP ===

Checking Bitbucket it looks like this is the latest release. Should I be running that instead? I never installed it because I was trying to keep my WarpIn stuff in sync and so did not want the ZIP file contents overlaying the latest WarpIn release.

Regarding userChrome.css delete...I will try that next.

Dave Yeo:
Probably what your running is good enough though could quickly test by unzipping freetyp2.dll into your Firefox program directory, assuming you have a dot at the beginning of LIBPATH.

Alex Taylor:
Comparative screen shots would help to understand what exactly you are seeing and (possibly) why.

You say you downloaded both the bitmapped and non bitmapped versions.  Which did you install? They can't both be installed (well, not successfully anyway).

Your reaction certainly suggests you have the non bitmapped versions installed.  Did you have the bitmapped versions installed before?

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