[Bug 160655] New: fonts in gtk applications are too small

Thu Apr 10 13:57:42 BST 2008

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160655         
           Summary: fonts in gtk applications are too small
           Product: unknown
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: karl.sebastian.liebich web de

Version:           unknown (using 4.0.3 (KDE 4.0.3), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.24-15-generic

The fonts in KDE4 are generally very strange - difficult to describe, but with KPDF the readability is much better than with OCULAR for instance. Fonts are so "soft" the letters merge together sometimes when font is too small.
In GTK apps - in my case firefox - fonts are so small I have difficulties to read. The Problem is also described by another user here: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/148506/0/print/

He describes, that only two of his machines are affected.

Please tell me how I can provide more Informations to trace the problem.

thx a lot
karl