I have cross-posted this message on libranet-users and on Debian-KDE. I ask that any typographers reading this message forgive my ignorance of the correct technical term to describe the phenomenon which is happening.
I read Web pages most frequently with Mozilla 1.1 under KDE 3.0.3. KDE's font rendering has continued to improve steadily, even following the introduction of anti-aliasing. It has become good enough to start poking at smaller issues. Chief among these for me is the "degradation" of fonts when one scrolls a long web page. A web page which one has scrolled often looks like a book printed with old worn-out metal type, with many letters "broken", especially on the serifs at the edges of each letter. The solution is always to reload the page (^R in Mozilla). Is there anything one can do to reduce or eliminate this font "degradation"? The following are the fonts and font managers which I have installed: cmatrix-xfont 1.1b-5 X11 font for Console Matrix fonttastic-gli 2000.03.13.12. Bitstream FontTastic font server for Corel W gfontview 0.5.0-0.2 A font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter gsfonts-x11 0.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. gtkfontsel 1.1-5 A gtk+ based font selection utility msttcorefonts 1.1.1 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts psfontmgr 0.11.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D wpo2000-fonts- 2000.03.13.12. TrueType fonts x-ttcidfont-co 13 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X. xfont-nexus 0.0.1-3 Nexus font for X servers xfonts-100dpi 4.2.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X xfonts-100dpi- 4.2.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106 xfonts-75dpi 4.2.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X xfonts-75dpi-t 4.2.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064 xfonts-base 4.2.1-3 standard fonts for X xfonts-base-tr 4.2.1-3 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10 xfonts-jmk 3.0-3 James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X xfonts-mona 2.21-1 proportional fonts for 2ch ASCII art xfonts-scalabl 4.2.1-3 scalable fonts for X This extract from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 controls fonts: FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
