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Anti-aliasing is "on" (KDE Control Center > LookNFeel > Fonts) with Exclude Range 8pt to 12pt also "on". These have no effect on the printed results whether "on" or "off". I assume anti-aliasing only affects screen display.

Thanks for the reply. I'd be happy with OpenOffice Writer being too tightly-spaced if the type in the KDE applications would close-up at the same time. That sounds like what you have. Do you know if there is an adjustment for horizontal spacing of type in the X server configuration? Or, I assume that it could be done by editing AFMs but that is way too much tinkering. --Don Fuller

Can I do anything about the lousy appearance of fonts in KDE applications? There is too much inter-character spacing. I’m growing fond of KWord but the appearance of type in it really bugs me. Readability suffers and content looks sloppy. What’s on the display looks the same and is the same length as what prints. Now take the same content and open it in OpenOffice Writer. It is 90% of the length it was in KWord with characters more tightly spaced. Again what’s on the dispaly is the same as what ...

I need a clue with an odd problem of fonts not printing from KDE applications. The problem may have existed from right after I installed Mandrake 9.1 and its CUPS. It wasn't something I was looking for. Unusual fonts displayed and printed okay. So printing "ordinary" fonts was taken for granted. But the problem was first noticed after disabling several excess fonts with kfontinst. Fonts like Blippo, Comic Sans, and Trebuchet display and print. But not Courier New, Palatino Linotype, and Times Ne...

My basic fonts Times New Roman, Courier New, and Palatino Linotype do not print from K applications. The fonts act normally on screen but do not print, instead defaulting to something like Arial with a character spacing that seems appropriate to the original font. It happens with TTF and Type1 versions. It happens with PCL and PS printers, and in Print Preview The same “problem” fonts do print from OpenOffice Writer. All other fonts do print from K applications. I’m using Mandrake 9.1. The ghost...