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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #530 on: August 23, 2008, 07:30:57 pm
Kazu Kibuishi designed his own font based on his own style of hand lettering, just to save time on full-length books, since he's kind of author/illustrator combo.  I think like anything else, there can be good manual and automatic fonts, but of course there can be horrible ones too :P

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #531 on: August 24, 2008, 03:10:58 am
Its on off topic thread, so I can go off topic.  :P
I've been having problems with Firefox on here.  I love the ability to click and zoom and such, but Firefox has been trying to "improve" the picture by blurring it whenever I enlarge something.  I think with some more updates it now blurs all pixel images.  Is there some option on settings that prevents this? 
Or is my monitor just dying?  :ouch:

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #532 on: August 24, 2008, 03:22:09 am
There's been topics about this. FF3 uses some sort of billinear scaling (I think?) instead of nearest neighbour. This is supposed to improve scaling on images, it's however not suited for pixel art. They didn't think that anyone would miss the old scaling, so there's currently no option of switching, except switching browser.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #533 on: August 24, 2008, 05:20:07 am
if you're looking to make a switch to a non-retarded browser i recommend opera. not pushing it on anybody but it is a lot faster and better than firefox. if you wanna stick with the losing team you can wait till an update comes along that allows you to turn it off
it might be a one shot deal

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #534 on: August 24, 2008, 06:17:00 am
...or you could download an earlier version of firefox.

Damn, nevermind, that'd be far too easy.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #535 on: August 24, 2008, 03:06:58 pm
Must be a Windows-only thing -- image zooming is just as crisp as ever on my Ubuntu Linux box with FF3.
I just found this handy way of doing things where you press / to search, type a word fragment to find the link you want, and hit Enter to go to it.
It speeded up local navigation a lot for me.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #536 on: August 24, 2008, 09:27:11 pm
After installing all the necessary stuff on my newly fixed computer, I noticed the Firefox thing, too. Luckily, I still have my faithful Pixelation Zoom, so it doesn't bother me. One of my favorite pieces of software!

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Reply #537 on: August 25, 2008, 07:04:29 am
Luckily, I still have my faithful Pixelation Zoom, so it doesn't bother me. One of my favorite pieces of software!
Explain!
I'm hoping you have some magic solution that will let me keep FF3 and have clean zooming.
thanks Dogmeat!

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Reply #538 on: August 25, 2008, 07:43:08 am
Must be a Windows-only thing -- image zooming is just as crisp as ever on my Ubuntu Linux box with FF3.
I just found this handy way of doing things where you press / to search, type a word fragment to find the link you want, and hit Enter to go to it.
It speeded up local navigation a lot for me.


thats been in opera since like 2003. peace.
it might be a one shot deal

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #539 on: August 25, 2008, 01:36:58 pm

Okay, it's not a perfect pun but whatever.  :crazy:
I mild from suffer dislexia.