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nesl247

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Saturday, December 17th 2005, 10:16pm

Fonts look horrible

My fonts look a bit bad.. If you look carefully they are a bit broken.. This is not the same on gnome.. (I have started kde with -dpi 96 according to some wiki I found).. This is the only thing keeping me from using kde. Please help, and thank you..


P.S. Happy Holidays.
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Sunday, December 18th 2005, 1:07am

RE: Fonts look horrible

Is font anti-aliasing enabled in the Font section of KDE's Configuration Centre?
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Sunday, December 18th 2005, 1:48am

Yes.. But even when it isn't it doesn't help.

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Sunday, December 18th 2005, 11:26am

Then, it looks like you've selected a non-Truetype font. Fonts like "Helvetica" and "Times" are kind of aliased. Try a (preferrably) TrueType font and see if the problem persists
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Wednesday, December 21st 2005, 6:59pm

What you are seeing there is 'auto-hinting'.

If you turn that off:



Now, auto-hinting will be turned on in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf or even perhaps ~/.fonts.conf.

You can add an entry to /etc/fonts/local.conf to stop auto-hinting all together:

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        <match target="font">
        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
       </match>


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