kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 I really cant figure out why this is happening. Below is The Register website when I view it in Konqueror - note how the text is "blocky" And yet, when I load up Gnome based Epiphany browser in KDE I get smoother fonts. Note that Epiphany is using a "san-serif" font However, when I look in the KDE font config area , I dont see a "sans-serif" font Any idea what's going on here? The Register website stylesheet is using font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; maybe because of that "sans-serif" bit , Konqueror isn't finding a font and using a blocky non-aliasing fallback ? My system is Mandrake 10.1 , upgraded from 10.0 [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 you should install various Windows fonts. alot of web sites are set up to use Windows TTF fonts, & others. if you have dual boot with Windows, you can do that with MCC->system->fonts & install them from your Windows partition. or, if you don't dual boot, you can go to a Windows install & burn the Windows \fonts folder to a CD & use MCC to get them that way. also, there are various Windows fonts available in contrib, & somewhere in this forum are links to websites with Windows font packages. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 It's not that -I've got those Windows fonts installed already. And the blocky font problem only occured after I upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1. My best guess is that it has to do with the move from XFree to XOrg If anyone out there has done a fresh install of 10.1 Official , could you post your /etc/fonts/local.cf file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 cat /etc/fonts/local.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations --> <fontconfig> <!-- Enable sub-pixel rendering <match target="font"> <test qual="all" name="rgba"> <const>unknown</const> </test> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> </match> --> </fontconfig> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 strange - that font config makes my fonts even worse. i added autohint and antialiasing settings. but that Register site still looks blocky. this is getting frustrating. <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <!-- Antialias --> <match target="font" > <test compare="more" name="size" qual="any" > <double>8</double> </test> <test compare="less" name="size" qual="any" > <double>15</double> </test> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Konqueror is respecting the Reg's bad font settings and using a (bad) font to satisfy them. There's no easy way around this, really. The hacky solution is to go and kill all the ugly X fonts, which is an ugly idea but works. The slightly more elegant solution is just to brute force fontconfig into replacing ugly fonts with sans; this post - http://www.mail-archive.com/fonts@xfree86.org/msg01428.html - gives details of how. I use this to forcibly replace practically every font you often come across (arial, verdana, helvetica, lucida etc) with its Vera equivalent. It's cleaner to make these modifications in /etc/fonts/local.conf (for systemwide) or ~/.fonts.conf (for one user) than directly in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inflexion Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 ive got the same problem but firefox solves it most of the time so i stick to using that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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