[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Anti-aliasing Curse
From:       "akar 'th 'orrible" <akar () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2001-06-30 22:03:32
[Download RAW message or body]

If you choose TT or Type1 fonts as your default override fonts in Netscape
then you should not be getting ugly fonts. Alternatively there are a set of
bitmap fonts called Mozilla Fonts that are the exact pt sizes for the
different body and head levels that netscape and mozilla uses that should
give a good display with the default settings. Search rpmfind for mozilla

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org>
To: "KDE User List" <kde-user@lists.netcentral.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing Curse


> akar wrote:
>
> > Yeh Well, Paul; We all are in the business of helping people get their
> > computers working PROPERLY not just 'sort of' working.
> > Your posts were about getting AA to work NOT just getting TT fonts to
> > display. You can get perfectly good TT fonts working without Xfree4 or
AA
> > etc using only Xfree3.3.6 and xfs.(although even with that you have to
get
> > the junk out of the font folder that windows uses.)
> >
> > If you have TT fonts then you would have 'nice' fonts (You dont need AA
for
> > that) If you have ugly blocky and sharp fonts then you are using scaled
> > Bitmap fonts.
> > Even Netscape etc will look good without AA if you go into its setup and
> > change its default sans and san-serif fonts to known TT fonts instead of
> > scaling bitmaps.
> > Remember Helvetica etc might show in the lists 3 times, make sure you
choose
> > a TT or Type 1 version or stick to Arial and Times New, they should only
> > appear once.
>
> That leads me to ask if there's any solution for the nastiest problem with
> ugly, unreadable fonts that I have: document-specified fonts viewed under
> Netscape.    I've fiddled with the Netscape option for using my default
fonts
> instead of document-specified fonts, but it generally doesn't seem to make
any
> difference.    I'm guessing that Netscape is entirely oblivious to
anything in
> my KDE configuration since it deals directly with XFree.
>
> Paul
>
>
> --
> Send posts to:  kde-user@lists.netcentral.net
>  Send all commands to:  kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net
>   Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message:
>    "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off"
>
> All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org
> **********************************************************************
> This list is from your pals at NetCentral <http://www.netcentral.com/>

-- 
Send posts to:  kde-user@lists.netcentral.net
 Send all commands to:  kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net
  Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message:
   "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off"

All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org
**********************************************************************
This list is from your pals at NetCentral <http://www.netcentral.com/>

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]