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D_L_Fuller

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Saturday, July 19th 2003, 1:58pm

Lousy appearance of fonts

Can I do anything about the lousy appearance of fonts in KDE applications? There is too much inter-character spacing.

I’m growing fond of KWord but the appearance of type in it really bugs me. Readability suffers and content looks sloppy. What’s on the display looks the same and is the same length as what prints.

Now take the same content and open it in OpenOffice Writer. It is 90% of the length it was in KWord with characters more tightly spaced. Again what’s on the dispaly is the same as what prints. It is just shorter.

Different fonts and different sizes follow the same pattern. Same font, TTF or Type 1, just wider inter-character spacing in KWord.

I’m using Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.0.

Is there a simple adjustment for this?

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2003, 2:48am

This has to do with the way your X server handles the fonts.

Can't help you any further, sorry

On my system, kword renders fonts fine, but OOo doen't (not enough spacing between fonts they all crumble on top of eachother :shock: )

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2003, 3:20am

Thanks for the reply.

I'd be happy with OpenOffice Writer being too tightly-spaced if the type in the KDE applications would close-up at the same time. That sounds like what you have.

Do you know if there is an adjustment for horizontal spacing of type in the X server configuration? Or, I assume that it could be done by editing AFMs but that is way too much tinkering.

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2003, 8:43am

Re: Lousy appearance of fonts

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Can I do anything about the lousy appearance of fonts in KDE applications? There is too much inter-character spacing.

I’m growing fond of KWord but the appearance of type in it really bugs me. Readability suffers and content looks sloppy. What’s on the display looks the same and is the same length as what prints.

Now take the same content and open it in OpenOffice Writer. It is 90% of the length it was in KWord with characters more tightly spaced. Again what’s on the dispaly is the same as what prints. It is just shorter.

Different fonts and different sizes follow the same pattern. Same font, TTF or Type 1, just wider inter-character spacing in KWord.

I’m using Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.0.

Is there a simple adjustment for this?



Silly question but have you got anti-alias fonts turned on.
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Friday, July 25th 2003, 3:25am

Anti-aliasing is "on" (KDE Control Center > LookNFeel > Fonts) with Exclude Range 8pt to 12pt also "on". These have no effect on the printed results whether "on" or "off". I assume anti-aliasing only affects screen display.

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Thursday, October 9th 2003, 1:27am

As far as I know, OO uses kerning, KOffice does not. That is why OO can place more characters on a line (and can do justification by compression and not only by extension.)

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