Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Romer <gromer@hmc.edu> wrote:
>
>> > 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).
Did you set the path in /etc/X11/XftConfig?
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Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
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