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Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?



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

I am not sure about 3.2 (still using 3.1.4), but the problem lies 
IMHO in the fact, that non-proportional fonts are so bad when 
anti-aliased. Therefore, in 2.* (whatever is default in 
Debian/woody) of KDE, I had to run konsole with --noxft so that 
I have only NON-AA-fonts so I could use normal X bitmapped 
fonts, which look much better. Apparently in 3.1.4 --noxft is 
default (and I am glad for it). I have now Fixed [Misc] and it 
looks reasonably well. Yes, standard Linux/Unicode/etc. fonts 
are horrible.

Matej

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