Subject: Re: [newbie] text issues Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:55:45 +0000 From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a couple of things you can do to improve font rendering (I am assuming you are using LM8.1) 1/ Import your fonts from your Microsoft partition if you have one. Control Centre > System > Fonts > get Windows Fonts For legal reasons Mandrake are not allowed to ship coyrighted fonts, so the windows ones are generally better. 2/ Enable anti aliasing in kde Look N Feel > Fonts 3/ Go to http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~rbos36/mdkfreetype2.html where a kind person has posted an RPM of the freetype fonts that come with Mandrake with Byte Code Interpreting enabled. Mandrake ships with BCI disabled for legal reasons 4/ I noticed with 8.0 that fonts appearance could be improved by careful selection of font size. Some sizes looked crummy while the next size up would look fine. Can't say I've noticed that with 8.1 however. My fonts look great :-) I mostly use Tahoma (A microsoft font) HTH On Wednesday 31 October 2001 10:29, you wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:11, David Reynolds wrote: > | In hoping for a better encore than my last failed question, I'll pose > | this one to the group: What is the way to solve the horrific font > | rendering problems with some Linux programs. Konqueror and word > | processing programs seems to be the worst offenders, but it also gets > | into control panels, etc so that they become virtually unreadable. > | > | David Reynolds > > Hi David > I haven't seen a response to your problem so I'll have a go. > > What font are you using? I use helvetica for just about everything > (Konqueror, menus, toolbar, etc) and they look fine. However, as my > graphics card is an old 1MB S3, anti-aliased fonts look terrible. I had > to turn that option off in kcontrol (KDE Control Center) > LookNFeel > > Fonts and then restart X. > > With OpenOffice my fonts look terrible all the time. I am just about to > order a few upgrade bits for my pc (yipppeee!) - including a graphics card. > > Perhaps you have the same problem??? If you have anti-aliased fonts > selected, try turning it off - or perhaps your problem is the exact > opposite and you should enable anti-aliasing. > > Good luck > skinky -------------------------------------------------------
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