[newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I read on the Mandrake website (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/features.php3) that anti-aliasing is integrated into Linux-Mandrake 8.0 to provide a nice improvement in how fonts are displayed. But on my system the fonts look very ugly. One example that comes to mind is the Add New

RE: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Adams, Jamie
. -- Jamie -- From: Guilherme Cirne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 August 2001 15:21 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing File: message.txt Hi, I read on the Mandrake website (http://www.linux

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing File: message.txt Hi, I read on the Mandrake website (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/features.php3) that anti-aliasing is integrated into Linux-Mandrake 8.0 to provide a nice improvement in how fonts are displayed

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
At 08:45 17/08/01 -0600, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 08:32, Adams, Jamie gave up his right to remain silent by saying: The Anti-Aliased fonts are not activated by default. I dont know if they work in Gnome, but if you wantt hem

Re: [newbie] Ugly fonts - Anti-aliasing

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
Not all fonts are created equal! Some are bitmap-based and I don't think anti-aliasing applies to them-- try to favour the adobe type fonts or true-type fonts as these are vector based and they will look better even without anti-aliasing. If you're running KDE, you can get a little extra