I just realized that I have had my display preferences set to zoom in at 114%. So this fits under the "[Scribus] Zooming and editing Text" thread from July.
When I set my display preference to 100% the characters display just fine. --Bill On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:50:13PM -0400, Peter Linnell wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:39, Bill Carini wrote: > > > > I have the same problem. The characters are squished together on the > > display, > > but they look fine when printed (see attached screenshots). So don't alter > > the spacing until you see how the printed page or PDF looks. I was hoping > > that > > upgrading to Qt 3.2 would solve this problem, but it hasn't. > > > > I think someone said that this is an XFree issue. Any ideas for making > > the display more closely resemble the printout? > > I suspect looking at the screen cap, this is one of the ghostscript > fonts, aliased as Helvetica. > > I would try the following: > > If you run KDE, install the MS webfonts and install them as root via > Kfontinstaller with the option to create .afm files. Replace the current > font with Arial medium. The rendering on screen should be much better. > > This tends to fix this type of problem. Qt 3.2 does help, in reducing > jagged font display, especially when freetype2 installed and Scribus is > compiled using the freetype2 devel libs. It is also faster in redraws. > > Hope that helps, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- ********************************************************************** This email was brought to you by the Mutt E-Mail Client (www.mutt.org) and Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Use GnuPG for confidential email. (www.gnupg.org) My public key may be found at wwwkeys.pgp.net **********************************************************************
