[kde-linux] Font display

[Rod Butcher]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:39 -0700, Mark Ness wrote:
> Mark Ness wrote: 
> > pyrenaien at gmx.de wrote: 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I have come upon an annoying flaw in SuSE Linux 10.0 that I didn't
> > > have with SuSE Linux 9.3. However, I think the font display issue
> > > belongs to KDE itself because it's the frontend that is
> > > responsible for graphics display, but perhaps you know better. So
> > > the reason could be the different KDE versions!
> > > 
> > > I would like to exemplify that with the following two screenshots:
> > > 
> > > Bad one: (OpenOffice, but the example applies to most of the
> > > programs within Linux)
> > > http://www.directupload.net/show/d/799/g4Iu7WK9.png
Appears not to be loading libfontconfig.so . Try running in a terminal
and look at the error messages.
I found that when this happens in a KDE app, I had to rebuild QT.
Rod
> > > 
> > > Good one: (with KPDF, which displays it independently (It's just
> > > PDF!)). That's the way SuSE 9.3 displayed all the text!
> > > http://www.directupload.net/show/d/799/3gAUa4Gb.png
> > > Thx 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > This problem has been circulating around fedoraforum.org as well. It
> > seems that going to Control Center->Appearance and
> > Themes->Fonts->check Use Anti-aliasing for Fonts (if it's not
> > already checked), Then click configure and change "Hinting Style" to
> > full. It helped some. but it's still noticeable. 
> > There was another kde-base update to fix the font problem for FC5,
> > but It didn't seem to change anything on my end. In fact, It seems
> > to be worse again. Perhaps after the last update, i need to go back
> > to default seeing for anti-aliasing (medium Hinting Style). 
> > 
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> Guess I should have mentioned KDE version 3.5.4-0.1, and the latest
> base update 3.5.4-0.4 (FC5)
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