Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-05 Thread Antiphon
It's fully legal to use them w/o Windows. You can also redistribute them provided you don't take them out of the self-extracting .exe files. On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 06:01:52 +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's our collective belief about the legality of using the MS fonts if there is

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Nick Boyce [Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:32:19 +]: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on QT backport to woody is compiled without anti-aliasing (XFT support). * Nick Boyce [Mon, 05 Jan 2004

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-05 Thread Frederik Dannemare
Nick Boyce wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:03:33 +0100, Gunter Ohrner wrote: By the way, *none* of the fonts in the screenshot is anti-aliased. Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now. Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of yes, you've enabled AA, but you also

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Nick Boyce wrote: For instance, the font used for the words Did you know ? in the Tip Of The Day dialogs offered by both Konsole and Kate is *awful* - it looks a mess ... utterly uneven and broken. The might to a large degree be caused by the gray and white stripes in the background. At least

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Dominique Devriese
Nick Boyce writes: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some windows. For instance, the font used for the words Did you

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Dominique Devriese [Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:47:50 +0100]: Also, does anyone have any idea how to fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the linux and unicode fonts don't work, selecting a custom font brings up very few fonts to choose

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Bart Dorsey
On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some windows. The lines do cause

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:47:50PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE packages, I'd be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone have any idea how to fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the linux and unicode

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Antiphon
A good terminal font to use is Bitstream Mono or Andale Mono. The former can be obtained through the Debian archive while the latter can be obtained by searching for andale.ttf in your favourite search engine. On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:19 pm, Chris Cheney wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sunday 04 of January 2004 06:47, Dominique Devriese wrote: If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE packages, I'd be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone have any idea how to fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the linux and unicode fonts

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Dominique Devriese
Chris Cheney writes: 1. Setup fontconfig properly (enable bitmap fonts) 2. Install xfonts-konsole 3. Run fc-cache -f 4. Restart KDE OK, thanks to all who replied. I first thought it might have been a problem in the KDE packages, but apparently not. My konsole looks a lot better now though

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:03:33 +0100, Gunter Ohrner wrote: By the way, *none* of the fonts in the screenshot is anti-aliased. Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now. Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of the relevant part of the Kcontrol dialog :

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:47:50 +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: Nick Boyce writes: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:57:28 -0600, Bart Dorsey wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:37:39 -0500, Jonathan Nelson wrote (off-list): On Monday January 05 2004 12:06 am, Nick Boyce wrote: Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now. Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of the relevant part of the Kcontrol dialog :  

Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-03 Thread Nick Boyce
I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some windows. For instance, the font used for the words Did you know ? in the Tip Of The