Hi,
I've always had problems with fonts in kword (and the other koffice apps). 
Specifically, the kerning is really bad - letters are squashed together or 
are too far apart, the spacing is very erratic. This occurs both on-screen 
and with printouts.

I've done a fair bit of googling and found that most people either have no 
problem with this or if they do, it's suggested that they are using poor 
quality fonts which cause the kerning problems. 

Of course most of these people are running linux, so I don't know if this is a 
problem specific to FBSD (though I would'nt have thought so).

I have no such problem with openoffice - the kerning seems perfect. I've tried 
adjusting the kde anti-aliasing settings just in case that had any effect, 
which it didn't. Kword doen't seem to have any kerning options I could 
adjust.

I've tried various different fonts, but seem to have similar results with all 
of them. Most of my fonts have been copied over from my WinXP partition and 
are the standard fonts that come with XP & various MS applications, so they 
should be good quality (that's one thing MS seem to get right). In any case, 
openoffice has no problem with the fonts.

So I'm just wondering if others running kde on FBSD have the same sort of 
problem. If not, do you have any suggestions for improving the kerning?

Cheers,
-- 
Ian

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