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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Graham TerMarsch on Wednesday 28/Mar/2001, @11:50

Ok, maybe I'm just missing something here.....

I've downloaded all of the Mandrake 7.2 packages that are listed in the 2.1.1 distributions directory on ftp.kde.org. This includes XFree 4.0.3, qt-2.3.0, and all of kde 2.1.1. I've installed all of these RPMs and thats fine.

But, no matter what I try here, I'll be darned if I can get AA fonts to work properly.

I'm using the latest 0.9.7 NVidia driver, which does support the RENDER extension.

I've tried updating my XF86Config to match the one in the tutorial, updated my XftConfig file accordingly, got the fonts from Keith's site, but still can't get this sucker to work.

Anyone out there either using Mandrake or an NVidia card that's managed to get this to work??

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Josh on Thursday 29/Mar/2001, @01:59

Exactly the same with my mandrake. Up to date drivers from Nvidia, the mandrake binaries etc.

Everything seems to be right, but I suspect the XftConfig file is not really read in.

Is there a way to get a verbose output from Xft or something like that?

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Hervé PARISSI on Thursday 29/Mar/2001, @02:22

I've installed KDE 2.1.1t for mdk 7.2 (video card: ATI Rage-128), I got the KDE anti-alias option, but if I comment out the TT FontPath in XF86Config-4 and set up XftConfig, I have no TT fonts at all ! I've installed FreeType2 from freetype2-2.0.1-0_helix_1.i386.rpm and even recompiled it from the sources, but that doesn't seem to come from FT2.
So I guess the problem really comes from Xft.

If anyone has managed to get AA fonts under mdk7.2 with the KDE 2.1.1 rpms, please post a "HOWTO" ! Thanks !

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Hervé PARISSI on Thursday 29/Mar/2001, @02:30

Strangely, KDE rpms for mdk7.2 have disappeared from some mirrors...

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Joe on Thursday 29/Mar/2001, @10:54

Have any of you tried addingthe following section to ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc

[KDE]
AntiAliasing=true

This worked for me after I got the right packages installed.

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Josh on Thursday 29/Mar/2001, @11:23

I tried that too! But I think in 2.1.1 the setting has moved to "kdeglobals" or the like where it was already set (it is an option in KDE/Settings/Style now).

I have - like the others - NO TrueTypeFonts in the font choice lists. Not even in QT-Designer, so it is probably not a KDE problem.

Who did the mdk packages on sourceforge anyway?

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Re: Tutorials On Using Anti-Aliased Fonts With KDE
by Hervé PARISSI on Friday 30/Mar/2001, @02:44

I've already got the AntiAliasing=true, but I can't get any TT fonts if I comment out the TT FontPath line in XF86Config. I checked the checkbox in kcm Look&Feel Style, but it really looks as Xft is disabled :(

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