Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

[Geoffrey Romer <gromer@hmc.edu>]

> > The optimal solution would seem to be to get anti-aliasable versions
> > of Helvetica and Courier. Is this possible?
> 
> Yes.  Any Postscript Type 1 or TrueType fonts will work.  Therefore,
> you can buy fonts from a number of places, use fonts from (say) an old
> version of Adobe Type Manager, download the MS Core Fonts[1] (see the
> msttcorefonts for help), etc.  I've done all of the above, though most
> of my screen fonts are the MS TTFs.
> 
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  See the msttcorefonts Debian package for some details.

I've tried msttcorefonts, but KDE doesn't appear to offer those fonts when
in Anti-aliasing mode. This may or may not be related to the fact that 
msttcorefonts does not use defoma, so I'm not sure how well-installed they
are (though they seem to show up in non-AA mode).

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Geoffrey M. Romer
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