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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#39059: All fonts look worse when antialiased
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2002-03-07 22:30:46
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tomas@com2tom.com wrote:

> Package: kde
> Version: KDE 2.2.2
> Severity: normal
> Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
> Compiler:          Not Specified
> OS:                Linux
> OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified
> 
> All fonts, including TrueType Times New Roman and others, look much worse
> when antialiasing is turned on. Without antialiasing, they are clean and
> well-formed, with antialiasing, the line thickness varies randomly, parts
> of characters are often missing altogether, and inter-character spacing is
> off. Setup: RedHat 7.2 with all latest updates. Verified that RENDER and
> Xft are active. XFree86 ver 4.1.0-15.

This is abiword's fault, most likely.

This is abiword's fault (most likely).  For a commentary, see the following:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855

rpm --erase abiword
or
chkfontpath --remove=/usr/share/Abiword/fonts
will most likely fix it.

-- 
Rex A. Dieter                   rdieter@unl.edu 
Computer System Administrator   http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics               
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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