Antialiased fonts in Mandrake 9.0

dexxter

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 4:12am

I suppose this isn't entirely a kde questions, but still I hold my breath for answers

Any suggestions on how to get me some antialiased fonts in KDE running on Mandrake?

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dimitri

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 7:22am

Hi,
1. Have you installed TTF's?
2. Have you enabled AA in the Kontrolcenter (Appearence->Fonts)

Dim

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dexxter

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 7:43am

1. Not myself
2. No

However, upgrading KDE to 3.1 was at best difficult, so I went back to RedHat where everything already was Antialiased

But are these two steps all that is needed? Would be nice to know for future installs.

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dimitri

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 11:56am

Hi,
well if you don't enable AA, then of course it won't be AA.
It's just one click away.

Dim

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dexxter

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 1:10pm

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well if you don't enable AA, then of course it won't be AA.

Yeah

I'll excuse myself with saying I wasn't aware of that option until I went to redhat...

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dexxter

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Tuesday, March 25th 2003, 2:26am

By the way, where might I find these TTF's? (True Type Fonts?)

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dimitri

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Tuesday, March 25th 2003, 7:19am

Hi,
well you can download them at sourceforge.net (verdana,arial etc) or if you have a Windowsinstallation take them from there.
Usually the ttf's are located at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype (hope I got it

)
To install them you can use the KDE Fontinstaller. It's a Kontrolcenter Modul.

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srinivasmurty

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Tuesday, April 22nd 2003, 5:09pm

I installed KDE 3.1.1a on a test user in my RH8.0 machine. Although I turned Anti-aliasing on, it doesn't seem to work. AA works fine on my "other" KDE (3.0.x) that came with my RH8.0. Am at my tethers end here.

I managed to install all my TrueType fonts. They work fine, but I just don't get the feel of AA as I should. Any suggestions anybody?

Srini

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Shoikan

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Tuesday, April 29th 2003, 9:49pm

It may depend on some stuff that you may have installed, since the AA functionality is based on a couple of things:

The version of Xfree (versions before 4.3.0 use Xft1 and 4.3.0 and higher use Xft2)
The version of Freetype2 (a library that may come with XFree, but can also be installed seperately)
The way QT has been compiled, since it has to be able to find which version of Xft (1 or 2) and which version of Freetype2 has been installed)

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