Subject: Re: Fonts
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 07:06:18 CST
Hi Reuben,
The font situation is rather hard to fix before Gtk 2.0. There
are various solutions available.
You can
1. Steal some true type fonts from a windows partition. Tomas Frydich has
done a great job in getting these to work. However you can't print them in
gnome-print.
2. A second solution is to use a utility called gtkxsft (I think) which
will make our fonts look MUCH better if your have recent version of
Xfree86.
I think you need 4.10. However this little utility does not work with
non-western Europen fonts.
I recently discovered that TeTex has a nice collection of Type 1
fonts. I'm looking to see if these can be used by abiword too.
Cheers
Martin
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
> I have the same question here. But I've seen no response from anyone to
> original message.
> I really thing the font display in Abiword could be much better. I prefer
> abiword than many other word processor (kword, staroffice) for many reasons
> that I think need not be mentioned.
> But the font display has becoming kinda an annoying thing, and become abiword
> weaknesses.
>
> Thanks in advance for any response.
> Reuben D. Budiardja
>
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 10:21 am, alastair wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > And apologies if this has been covered before - I am fairly new to
> > Abiword.
> >
> > I recently installed 0.9.5 which is great so far except that no matter
> > what font I use it appears jagged and sometimes hardly readable.
> >
> > Is there anything I need to do to imporove the way fonts are displayed?
> > I have used other apps such as KWord and fonts are not nearly as ugly
> > looking.
> >
> > I'm running Mandrake 8 and I have fairly up to date versions of both
> > Gnome and KDE running on my machine.
> >
> > Any suggestions of what to look for would be gratly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Alastair
> >
> >
> >
> >
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