Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["Ralph Sanford" <rsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:02:15 -0500, Timothy R. Butler wrote:

>Hi Ralph,

>> I have/had the same problem that switching on AA on KDE 2.1.1 causes the
>> Kicker crash at startup.  I downloaded the files from sourceforge and
>> then tried the files from SuSE and the results were exactly the same
>> Kicker crash.
>>
>> So what I have done is to install KDE 2.1.1 without using KDE to switch
>> on the AA.  Installed true type fonts.  Ran the following commands:
>> # ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir
>> # SuSEconfig -module fonts
>
>  Hmm... thanks for the suggestion. Just out of curiousity though, how did 
>you turn AA on if you didn't enable it via the KDE 2.1.1 control panel?
>
>  Thanks so much!
>
>    -Tim
>
>-- 
>
Hi Tim,
Using the instructions as previously mentioned by Lenz Grimmer and Nadeen
Hasan, the above is what was needed before KDE 2.1 was released.  So I
just pretended that KDE 2.1.1 does not have an AA switch made the above
changes and called it a day.

Is it "real" antialiasing?   I don't know.  The Truetype fonts that I
wanted now show up on KDE and StarOffice font lists.  Netscape has an
oversized 12 pt truetype font for everything.  But most importantly my
limited testing of importing and exporting documents between MS Office
and Star Office is now done using the same fonts and the 72 pt Arial font
used for my company letterhead in Star Office is now smooth and somewhat
fuzzy as opposed to blocky and jagged.

Arial and Times New Roman truetype fonts in Star Office are what I had
actually wanted.  So I consider anything above that as a bonus. 


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