[smc-discuss] Re: How do browsers show fonts?

[Srihari k]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Srihari k <harisulthan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Srihari k <harisulthan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Srihari k <harisulthan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  But malayalam letters are too small.So i have to
>>>> zoom the page for reading them.But by zooming english text becomes
>>>> larger..So is there a way to change displayed font sizes in for
>>>> malayalam alone in firefox?
>>>
>>>
>>> Oops..I think i've been thinking all wrong about the issue.
>>> Sorry....I have made a stupid mistake somewhere...The problem with
>>> fonts being small is only at:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.smc.org.in/
>>>
>>> Text is in normal readable size at:
>>>
>>> http://malayal.am/
>>> http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php
>>> http://www.manoramaonline.com
>>> and
>>> http://www.mathrubhumi.com/
>>>
>>
>> UPDATE
>>
>> The problem persists with SMC wiki and malayalam wiki pedia..
>>
>> The text dsiplayed in these sites is still small.
>>
>> When i copied malayalm text to an html file i created and opened in
>> firefox the text is displayed in proper size
>>
>> My browser user agent string:
>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402
>> Namoroka/3.6.3
>>
>> So it is a browser specific / CSS of the wiki related problem ?
>
>
> No, no problem with these web pages. Can you give us a screenshot?
> Don't use Malayal.am or mathrubhumi for testing. That sites embed the fonts.
>
> I assume that the problem is the fontconfig rules not getting applied
> as expected. Font config does 1.2 multipllication of Meera font size.
> If you had installed the fonts in the normal way(read: using the
> package management system of your distro),  this problem will not
> come.
>
> -Santhosh

Attached two screenshots and a font config file i was told to modify
earlier.(/etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-meera.conf)


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