On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:33, Ian Moore wrote: > 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,
Hi Ian, I'm also using KOffice on FreeBSD (on 3 machines actually). The problem is Qt related (or Qt together with X11... don't know the details). Qt 3 has various font kerning problems (AFAIK). So basically the font kerning problems are expected to be fully fixed with Qt 4 and KOffice 2 (the "text widget" will be replaced by then with something from Qt 4). Until then people need to find some workaround... Now, I'm using KOffice but have almost NO kerning problems. No idea why this is different between our machines, but I never really had much of a problem. With some fonts I also recognised small kerning issues, in particular with zooming. If you work with a zoom of 100% pretty much every font should work fine. You will also notice the similar font issues with KPDF actually... What I would suggest is the following: Use fonts from the ports system (not sure about the copied one from your Windows partition(?)): /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts (M$ standard fonts - Times New Roman, ...) /usr/ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts (a few nice fonts with which I had very good results also in prints and PDFs) Don't forget to set the font path in your X11 configuration (and restart X). Other than that... you might look at help:/koffice , there is a chapter on font kerning. If you keep having problems, you can also ask on the koffice user list. This issue is not FreeBSD related (although some Linux distros might do sth about it - no idea). Regards, Raphael _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
