On Wednesday 31 October 2001 05:57 am, you wrote: > Subject: Re: [newbie] text issues > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:55:45 +0000 > From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There are a couple of things you can do to improve font rendering (I am > assuming you are using LM8.1) > > 1/ Import your fonts from your Microsoft partition if you have one. > Control Centre > System > Fonts > get Windows Fonts > For legal reasons Mandrake are not allowed to ship coyrighted fonts, so the > windows ones are generally better.
Actually I'm using 8.0 as 8.1 hadn't shipped when I had my computer built last month. There is a Fonts screeen in Control Center (under Look-n-Feel) but no option to import Windoze fonts. I did find it under DrakFont instead. I'll reboot this afternoon and see how the fonts look.. > 2/ Enable anti aliasing in kde Look N Feel > Fonts Hmmm, Anti-aliasing has never been on on this computer, maybe that's the problem. Of course, font troubles are less of an issue right now because... My monitor is stuck in 480x640 mode! I'm having a Manhattan-esque real estate problem here! When it initially got set up by the shop (I know, should have done it myself it had 800x600 which is plenty, but I tried to find the actual monitor type in the list, rather than the generic, and since then it has been unable to climb out of the dark ages (okay, 1980s). My graphic card is an nVidia GeForce2 and I am getting zero use out of it...any suggestions? No matter what generic monitor settings I choose I cannot get the test screen to go beyond 480x640. > 3/ Go to http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~rbos36/mdkfreetype2.html > where a kind person has posted an RPM of the freetype fonts that come with > Mandrake with Byte Code Interpreting enabled. > Mandrake ships with BCI disabled for legal reasons > > 4/ I noticed with 8.0 that fonts appearance could be improved by careful > selection of font size. Some sizes looked crummy while the next size up > would look fine. Can't say I've noticed that with 8.1 however. > > My fonts look great :-) I mostly use Tahoma (A microsoft font) I'll keep all that in mind if this doesn't work. Currently I'm using Lucidia for most of my fonts. Konq still does ugly things with system fonts sometimes, making them much too small, etc. However with my limited screen space I don't want everything in 14 font just so I can read 3 words per line. Thanks, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein
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