[csw-users] Problem with Seamonkey 1.1.6 (at least) fonts

[Alessio]

lucian at lastdot.org wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:13:20 -0800
> Rikk Streng <rikk at ecursed.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to Solaris and Unix in general so please forgive me if I
>> don't seem clear.
>>
>> I am using Solaris 10 x86 08/07.  I got Seamonkey 1.1.6 from
>> Blastware, it installed fine and is running reliably.  However, I am
>> having one small problem- it's not drawing all of the fonts
>> correctly.  There appears to be at least one font set it isn't
>> antialiasing so it looks really bad.  Here is a page
>> (www.abxzone.com) displaying the problem very clearly:
>>
>> http://www.ecursed.com/pictures/solarisfonts.jpg
>>
>> On the left is Firefox 2.0.0.4 that comes with Solaris 10.  On the
>> right is Seamonkey.  They are both running at the same time, side by
>> side. Some other sites I have tried look like this, some will have
>> some fonts antialiased and some not.  I am noticing vBulletin forum
>> sites have more problems than others, which may be a clue since they
>> tend to use a lot of the same fonts.
>>
>> I don't have any other CSW apps installed to really test against, but
>> I have a feeling one of the various dependencies that handles fonts
>> either doesn't come with a suitable font or broke somewhere during
>> the install. Anyone else see this or have any idea how to fix it?
>> Ideally if I could either fix/install the problem font or point
>> Seamonkey to the fonts Solaris uses by default that would be good.
> 	
> 	My solution to a similar problem (but on linux), was to add:
> <selectfont>
>   <rejectfont>
>    <pattern>
>      <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
>    </pattern>
>   </rejectfont>
>  </selectfont>
> 
> to ~/.fonts.conf (create the file if it doesnt exist and restart
> seamonkey). Hope this helps you.

yes, this tricks solves the problem.
and yes, it's not a seamonkey issue but something related to 
freetype/fontconfig