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Mr Myaghi
04-14-2002, 02:28 PM
I'm wondering why fonts don't display as well in linux as in windows. Not in any circumstance do they have the same quality on the screen. They always seem to be a bit pixelized or something. In every program. I think typography is very important and I find this a bit annoying. Maybe it's just on my sytem, I don't know. But if it's general this really has to be fixed if linux is ever gonna make into eg desktop publishing. I know I have the anti-alising box checked in KDE 3. But it makes no differenes on any of the window mangers I've tested (I've tested most). Is it just me???
scanez
04-14-2002, 02:54 PM
Originally posted by Mr Myaghi:
<STRONG>Is it just me???</STRONG>
Possible. I think it's just a preference thing- I personally don't see the big deal with AA and true type fonts. Maybe some searches on google can help you out more about settings up AA and true type fonts.
gritseater
04-14-2002, 09:15 PM
I ran into the same problem using Gnome. When I installed AbiWord, I found a section on configuring AbiWord to use Microsoft truetype fonts. I was thinking at the time that the info would come in handy to sharpen up fonts in other programs. It may help.True Type Fonts (http://www.abisource.com/support/faq/fonts.phtml) ;)
Mr Myaghi
04-15-2002, 12:16 PM
typing: "export QT_XFT=1" seems to have done the trick. Anyway, I think I have to type this in every time I use linux. If I want it to start automatically at every startup I should put this line in some config file somewhere - which one???

I have KDE and the aa box checked, I also typed in some command (can't remember what it was right now) to check if it was enabled. If it returned "1", which it did, it would mean it was enabled, but obviously it wasn't - strange.

Thanks!!!
smokybobo
04-15-2002, 03:08 PM
Originally posted by Mr Myaghi:
<STRONG>typing: "export QT_XFT=1" seems to have done the trick. Anyway, I think I have to type this in every time I use linux. If I want it to start automatically at every startup I should put this line in some config file somewhere - which one???

I have KDE and the aa box checked, I also typed in some command (can't remember what it was right now) to check if it was enabled. If it returned "1", which it did, it would mean it was enabled, but obviously it wasn't - strange.

Thanks!!!</STRONG>

Stick that export command in ~/.bash_profile and it will run everytime you log in.