On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40, Raphael Langerhorst wrote: > 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...
That explains why openoffice doesn't suffer the same problems. > 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... Certainly you notice the problems more when you zoom in, but I can still see the problems even at 100%. Zooming doesn't affect the printed results of course. The letters v & y seem to be the worst culprits. > > 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, ...) I believe these are the same ones I have from Windows, but I'll try uninstalling them & install the ones in the port to see if makes any difference. > > /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). Thanks for your help Raphael, I'll do some more experimenting and see what turns up. Incidently, I've found Franklin Gothic seems to work better than Arial & Times New Roman, though it's still a little wonky with v & y. Cheers, Ian > > Regards, > Raphael > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > [email protected] > http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd -- Ian GPG Key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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