From koffice  Tue Nov 30 10:17:15 1999
From: Wilke Havinga <w.k.havinga () student ! utwente ! nl>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:17:15 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: kword screen font handling
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=94397853815878


> ?????????? Can you explain that a bit better. It's QPainter and X what is used,
> KWord doesn't do anything special with fonts, just QPainter::setFont(). I Mean
> X doesn't offer things like anti-aliasing and so on, so we don't have that.

The problem is with X-fonts in general: ofcourse they are not bad, but the
fonts that come with <your-favorite-distro-here> usually don't include
nicely scalable fonts.
You might want to check out xfstt, a font server for X that can use
M$ Windows (TM) TrueType fonts. I'm also using this, and it makes X (not
only KOffice!) look a lot better.

For information on how to 'de-uglify' your X-fonts, go to
http://www.google.com, and search for 'Font Deuglification Howto'.
If you can't find it, I have a copy lying around on my harddisk somewhere.
Just mail me in private if you want to have it.



Greets,

Wilke Havinga