I just grabbed some of the fonts from my Windows machine. After fixing the RPM spec file everything works great except for the typical Truetype at small font sizes. Does anyone know what the optimal point is to turn off TrueType? I.e. 10pt? 8pt? NeoFax -----Original Message----- From: Chris Howells [mailto:chrish@gmx.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:36 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux Planet = Font Aliasing Problems in 7.3 explanation and solution On Tuesday 06 November 2001 20:23, dids wrote:

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I've also tried it, and to be perfectly honest, I can't see any difference after compiling the new free type package.

What *exactly* is the problem with freetype, and what does the patch fix?

Is there really no way to get a nicely anti-aliased helvetica without installing Microsoft's web fonts?

Hmm, my problem was that I use Tahoma which i really like. Also some fonts are not designed to be anti-aliased at small point sizes, so you switch that off by editing Xftconfig. Without recompiling, the fonts look weird at small sizes w. aa turned off.

Right. But my problem with SuSE is that it simply does not seem to have any decent fonts that can be anti-aliased, in any size, even looking bad. After switching on AA, KDE lists the following fonts as being available: Bitstream Charter Courier Cursor Efont serif Lucidux* OmegaSerif So I can't even choose if I want helvetica anti-aliased or not. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com