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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Anti-aliasing ugliness in Konqueror
From:       Martin Willers <M.Willers () tu-bs ! de>
Date:       2002-11-28 21:54:39
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Hi!

--(Anti-aliased fonts)
> > Looking at the rendering of a small test-page with two lines of text in
> > Arial (screenshots attached below), it can be seen that with Konqueror,
> > there is a sudden "jump" in thickness of the texts (whose sizes differ
> > by only 1 pixel!). It looks much more natural in Mozilla, where the
> > 18px-text is just a bit bigger, but not noticably thicker.
> > [...]

> This issue seem to be explained, discussed and work-aorund on this page:
> http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/

Yes, indeed. I've applied that patch, and now it looks much better. Thanks 
for the link!
However, patching the Xft-library isn't really user-friendly, and since 
Mozilla manages to do well without that, it should be possible with 
Konqueror, too?

ciao,
 Martin

 
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