Re: Ugly fonts on new KDE installation
On Monday 09 August 2004 16:56, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> I just installed Debian on a new computer here using the new installer,
> then upgraded completely current to unstable. I installed the Tahoma
> truetype font, but it looks really funky (fuzzy/uneven) in KDE. I use the
> same font on my regular desktop and it looks nice and crisp. Both the new
> machine and my regular desktop are 100% upgraded with unstable, but I just
> can't get the new machine's Tahoma font to look crisp the way it looks on
> my machine. I believe I have the same font/x-related packages installed on
> both.
I wrestled with this for most of the afternoon, and wouldn't you know it that
within an hour of my post asking for help, I'd figure it out for myself?
Apparently, even though I had turned off anti-aliasing in the Control Panel,
AA was still "on" somewhere on the new system. My desktop system doesn't
have this change, yet AA is "off". I have no idea why AA is "on" on one
system but "off" on the other.
Adding the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf fixed my funky font problem:
<match target="font">
<test name="size" compare="less">
<double>16</double>
</test>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
With this change, basically, any fonts that are 16pt or less will not be AA'd.
I hope this helps someone else running into "ugly font" problems with truetype
fonts.
Sean O'Dell
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