Not Solved e: Solved Re: Horrible fonts 11.10

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/03/12 06:02, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 05:31 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 04:57 PM, Isak Enström wrote:
>>> Den 14 mars 2012 11:53 skrev Nigel Ridley<nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Running 11.10
>>>> Don't really know why I did it but I went into System Setting>
>>>> Application Appearance> Fonts and changed the option 'Use 
>>>> anti_aliasing:'
>>>> from 'System Settings' to 'Enabled' and then clicked on the 
>>>> 'Configure'
>>>> button and checked 'Use sub-pixel rendering:'RGB' and then chose 
>>>> 'Hinting
>>>> style:' 'Medium'. Clicked 'OK' and then 'Apply'.
>>>> Then the fonts looked ugly in newly opened apps. I then went back and
>>>> returned the font setting to how they were to begin with: 'Use
>>>> anti_aliasing:' 'System Settings'. But still the fonts looked the 
>>>> same :-(
>>>> No matter what I tried to change the fonts still are ugly.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to get back my nice looking fonts?
>>>>
>>>> Nigel
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Try deleting/renaming /home/<username>/.fonts.conf
>>>
>>> ~~
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>>
>> That did the trick - Thank you :-)
>> I was actually .fontconfig
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
>
> I thought it was solved - the fonts looked much better than before but 
> they are still not crisp.
> The only thing I could find in .kde was .kde/share/config/kcmfonts:
> [General]
> dontChangeAASettings=true
> forceFontDPI=0
>
> So where else might the settings be?
> I suppose I could put up with them and wait until a clean install of 
> 12.04
>
> Nigel

You don't mention on what hardware you are having this problem - a 
desktop with XXXXX monitor (where XXXX is a CRT or an LCD, which make 
and at what resolution) or is on a laptop.

You also don't mention what video you are using - nVidia or Radeon, on 
board the mobo or as a separate video card  - and whether you have the 
*proper* driver installed or still using the default driver.

Nor do you mention which fonts you are using. I mention this because 
there are fonts specially designed for printers and those designed for 
use for displaying text on monitors.

The other thing, if you want to see decent fonts you do need to enable 
anti-aliasing with sub-pixel rendering -provided that you have the 
proper video driver installed and you monitor is capable of doing this.

BC


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