OS wrote: > > Hello, > > I have always used xfstt. Not being to sure what the current state of play > with anti aliased fonts were I decided to switch it off and use xfs. > > (Could someone tell me if it matters which font server you use as to whether > you will see anti aliasing ?) > > Boy, was I in for a shock ! I must be doing something wrong ! Surely ! Gone > were all the elegantly rendered fonts, gone were the nice curvey fonts, gone > was the sensible scaling. Replaced with spindly, jagged and 3/4 the size > fonts. Except for what should have been bold letters. These all went to the > other extreme, huge bloated squidgy letters that looked silly because the > were still 3/4 the size they should have been ! > > Has anyone else experienced this, and does anyone have a solution ? > > Owen The rendering of fonts in KDE2 was not that good... preview text from Konquerer was only readable by increasing the size, it was horrible an blobby. Now, with the Mandrake beta it has affected my shells in KDE. Konsole is unusable, I get bars across the text and it is very distorted. I am now using the Gnome terminal because that's the only one that doesn't distort text. I have my KDE display settings for text on large (which I hate, but at least can read) and only ten fonts are available in KDE (in spite of installing all the X fonts and importing some Windows ones). Plus, very poor language support for KDE. Drakfont crashes when importing Windows fonts as well. The windoze mail program is not good, but after the latest beta failing to install X without breaking it, not creating files for such minor things as Postfix, and other little init problems, I'm temporally using the dreaded Gates OS. -- Anna
