On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: > I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing > switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there > are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some > windows.
The lines do cause some distortion, but not as bad when Anti aliasing is actually turned on. Make sure your card can do the RENDER extension (xdpinfo should list it) Also make sure you have fontconfig installed, and finally , make sure you have anti aliasing turned on in the Kcontrol fonts dialog box. Here's an example of what it SHOULD look like. http://thebucket.org/echo/kate-good-looking-fonts.png BTW, apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera the font I'm using there is Bitstream Vera Sans. > > For instance, the font used for the words "Did you know ?" in the "Tip > Of The Day" dialogs offered by both Konsole and Kate is *awful* - it > looks a mess ... utterly uneven and broken. > > I've put a screen-capture of the Kate Tip-Of-The-Day dialog on my > website, at http://www.glimmer.demon.co.uk/kde/kate-lousy-font.png if > anyone feels like having a look. > > Can anyone hazard a possible explanation for this ? > Does anyone else see anything better looking in this dialog on their own > machines ? > > (I use a Voodoo 3 graphics card, in case that's relevant, and the 3Dfx > Voodoo 3 driver is selected in KXconfig). > > Cheers, > Nick Boyce > Bristol, UK
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