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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Konq font resizing
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-03-04 17:01:19
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On Sunday 17 February 2002 21:47, Pavel Troller wrote:
|   > Not for me, I get big fonts when using minimum font size 20 on those
|   > sites (khtml from yesterday's cvs). I'm using antialiasing and XFree
|   > 4.0.3.
|
|   Hi!
|     Yes, I played with fonts and when selecting certain fonts, it works for
| me too, at least in some parts of the pages.
|     For example, in www.lupa.cz, titles of articles are not reacting even
|   now, and what interesting, they are not antialiased, while the rest of

Just to be sure that this problem was invistigated:
  www.lupa.cz uses "Helvetica CE" font for that title (header), and 
KDE3beta2/Qt 3.0.1 maps that font to Helvetica, which is bitmap font (in most 
XFRee86 versions/user setups)

So, font selection mechanism in Qt/KDE3 needs to be fixed.
I think you should get Arial CE in this case (lupa.cz), which of course 
should be anti-aliased. Obviously, there is no font named "Helvetica CE" in 
most user setups...

P.S. my version of X was XF 4.1.0, AA enabled
 
| page is (and it reacts), so by making a minimum size very big (20) I can
| manage the page that the article annotation is rendered by a bigger font
| then its title.
|     But what's bad: When selecting minimum font size to be ok for this type
|   of pages, on normal pages, where the font size is not dictated by CSS or
|   something else, the font is VERY BIIIIG, like for visually impaired. So
| it's hard to find a selection which would be acceptable for all the pages.
|
|                                                With regards, Pavel Troller

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