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Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?



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 know ?" in the
> "Tip Of The Day" dialogs offered by both Konsole and Kate is *awful*
> - it looks a mess ... utterly uneven and broken.

> I've put a screen-capture of the Kate Tip-Of-The-Day dialog on my
> website, at http://www.glimmer.demon.co.uk/kde/kate-lousy-font.png
> if anyone feels like having a look.

> Can anyone hazard a possible explanation for this ?  Does anyone
> else see anything better looking in this dialog on their own
> machines ?

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 don't work, selecting a custom font brings
up very few fonts to choose from etc. ), please share it.

cheers
domi



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