jan wrote: > > Hi, > on some websites, the letters, or the whole text if you want, looks strange > on my MD 8.0 system. It seems as if all the letters are on a different level > of height in one line. > ( seen from far away, it looks for me as if they always go up and down. ) > I have this problem with all browsers, konqueror, netscape and mozilla. > It happend from one day to the other, I didnt make any changes at the font > library or sth. like that. > > What might that be? > > Thx Jan I saved the following post from when I had the same problem. Heres the output: One of my pet peeves was the font quality on Linux (Mandrake in particular). I had already tried a number of things but the replies to the above thread filled in some missing pieces. Here is what I hope is a one stop solution. Here goes: 1. If you have AbiSuite trash it or the fonts only if you can (I hear the latest version might not crap out the fonts) 2. You have to prevent unscalable fonts from being scalled As root rename the following directories from: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi to: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled This will limit your choice of sizes to the ones that look ok 3. Download True Type fonts to replace the others (If you have Windows on the machine. If not you will have to bring them in manualy) As root go to: Menu->Configuration->Other->DrakeFont use the Get Windows Fonts button to bring up a dialog. Load in all the TT fonts 3. Configure your machine to use the TT fonts. ControlCenter->LookNFeel->Fonts Select TT fonts for your display. I used Arial, Courier New, Frankelin Gothic Book TT fonts for the desktop, menu etc..... 4. If your video card supports the RENDER extension you can turn on anti-alliassing ( I do not have it on & it still looks ok. Just a tad rough on the larger TT fonts) ControlCenter->LookNFeel->Style - check these boxes -Apply fonts & Colors to non KDE Apps -Use Anti-Allissing 5. Configure your apps to use the TT fonts. For Konqueror I used Frankelin Gothic Book for the default and Arial and Courier New for Others. There is also Times New Roman etc....... 6. Use TT fonts in your word processing documents. I made a test document with TT arial fonts from size 8 to 72 and they all looked great. Let me know if there is any other feedback - hints
