I can't stand the default font rendering under KDE which is why I use, alternatively the Xft and FreeType 2 modifications found at http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/
Be careful about installing his Freetype2 since it messes up aliased fonts quite badly. But anti-aliased fonts look better, IMHO, than on any other platform but YMMV. On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:52 pm, Bruce Miller wrote: > 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"
