Oliver Jones wrote:

Hi Folks.

I've switched to Ubuntu Breezy from FC4 on my laptop. Everything is going swimmingly. However one thing is odd. Fonts. The fonts in Ubuntu on webpages and apps don't appear quite the same as on FC4. I've installed the MS TT Core fonts package so I have Arial, Tahoma et al installed. But things still look different. Things look clearer in some apps (I think this is the freetype2 hinting setting at work) which is nice but other apps are ugly. Particularly GTK+ v1 apps are all jaggy. Also some websites don't look the same as I'm used to. Like as if the Arial fonts arn't being used....

Anyway, sage advice on fonts in Ubuntu would be apreciated.

http://www.wlug.org.nz/FontNotes Turn hinting on. Look in /etc/fonts/ - I think there is a commented out section which can be commented back in to get the desired result. Websites are dictated by your web browser settings - I assume Firefox defaults to Vera Sans for sans-serif? GTK1 apps, you're on your own. You still use those? Craig