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Old 01-30-2003, 10:15 AM   #31
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Ok, best of luck. My StarOffice has only about 500 fonts all the sudden(understatement as wry humour, it had 100 before)

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Old 01-31-2003, 11:01 AM   #32
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Dear John,
I was messing up with fonts, screen resolutions, monitor drivers and I don't remember what else. Certainly I tried all you recommended. Over the sudden all applications got a very nice looks. I could even tell, the ugly fonts are gone.
The only chunky fonts left are in the text labels on the desktop.
Well, all the rest works and works superb. I will certainly buy Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1 as soon as it comes out because I miss TTFs in my office applications.

Regards,
dimitri

Last edited by linuxfond; 02-21-2003 at 01:38 PM.
 
Old 01-31-2003, 05:55 PM   #33
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WEll, here is how to fix the icon labels:

you can go into:
K menu
Configuration
KDE
Look'n'feel
Desktop
Appearance Tab
change fonts to suit, my icon labels are now Albany 13 pixel (monotype)
About the time you click apply after changing fonts, the icons will disappear -- do not panic, instead do this:
Click the Desktop tab.
Click the enable icons on desktop to force it to be disabled, then click apply. Nothing should have changed, and this is ok.
Now clcik the enable icons on desktop box again, and again click apply-- it should think a bit, then your icons should magically reappear.

DO NOT ask me WHY this works, I do not know how to force KDE to repaint the icons with new fonts any other way and can only surmise that KDE does not change from default fonts to TrueType gracefully and has to be forced to by turning the icons off then on after a font change that major.

John.
 
Old 02-01-2003, 06:00 AM   #34
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Thanks! I don't know why I did not try all fonts earlier! Indeed, some fonts looks nice, specially at 10-11px.

Now all applications look very good. The problem of fonts in KDE is gone.

Thanks for your help.
dimitri

Last edited by linuxfond; 02-21-2003 at 01:39 PM.
 
Old 02-01-2003, 07:41 AM   #35
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Very good to hear that-- Since I also do desktop publishing and like things more WYSIWYG (and thus nice looking on screen as well as on paper) I also had motivation to study how to fix this for myself also.

John.
 
  


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