On Thursday 05 April 2001 09:38 pm, Brian Schramm wrote:
> What does anti-aliasing have to do with true type fonts? I thought that if
> you got the font server working then everything else would work.
Apparently anti-aliasing only works with TrueType and Type1 fonts.
Here's what I did to get anti-aliasing to work on a woody-system,
xfree4.0.2 with the most recent kde2.1.1 packages left over from
the time when my system was still potato:
a) Install Xfree 4.0.2
b) deinstall xfstt
c) install a few truetype fonts into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
d) added the following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
(in Section "Files")
The freetype module is loaded automagically in the XF86Config-4
coming with woody nowadays.
e) Went stark-raving mad, since kde seemed to find only the few
Type1 fonts, I had.
f) got on ppl's nerves on IRC
g) finally got a hint: in /etc/X11/XftConfig there needs to be a line:
dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
h) Yippiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie - fonts in QT-Apps are now anti-aliased.
Hope this clarifies a few things :)
cya,
Volker
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