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Antialiased fonts in Mandrake 9.0
I suppose this isn't entirely a kde questions, but still I hold my breath for answers
Any suggestions on how to get me some antialiased fonts in KDE running on Mandrake?
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Hi,
1. Have you installed TTF's?
2. Have you enabled AA in the Kontrolcenter (Appearence->Fonts)
Dim
1. Not myself
2. No
However, upgrading KDE to 3.1 was at best difficult, so I went back to RedHat where everything already was Antialiased
But are these two steps all that is needed? Would be nice to know for future installs.
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Hi,
well if you don't enable AA, then of course it won't be AA.
It's just one click away.
Dim
Original von dimitri
well if you don't enable AA, then of course it won't be AA.
Yeah
I'll excuse myself with saying I wasn't aware of that option until I went to redhat...
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By the way, where might I find these TTF's? (True Type Fonts?)
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Vulcans are people too!
Hi,
well you can download them at sourceforge.net (verdana,arial etc) or if you have a Windowsinstallation take them from there.
Usually the ttf's are located at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype (hope I got it
)
To install them you can use the KDE Fontinstaller. It's a Kontrolcenter Modul.
Dim
I installed KDE 3.1.1a on a test user in my RH8.0 machine. Although I turned Anti-aliasing on, it doesn't seem to work. AA works fine on my "other" KDE (3.0.x) that came with my RH8.0. Am at my tethers end here.
I managed to install all my TrueType fonts. They work fine, but I just don't get the feel of AA as I should. Any suggestions anybody?
Srini
It may depend on some stuff that you may have installed, since the AA functionality is based on a couple of things:
The version of Xfree (versions before 4.3.0 use Xft1 and 4.3.0 and higher use Xft2)
The version of Freetype2 (a library that may come with XFree, but can also be installed seperately)
The way QT has been compiled, since it has to be able to find which version of Xft (1 or 2) and which version of Freetype2 has been installed)
Thursday, May 16th 2024, 4:10am
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