my fonts are not sharp as in windows

[Dingens]

my fonts are not so sharp as in windows os. after i installed the microsoft fonts pbi and figured it on arial the kde apps (like: amarok, kopete, konquerer....) are sharp as windows, but my firefox, thunderbird, open office and so on.... ARE NOT SHARP!

what did i wrong?

[toadlife]

There is a FreeBSD port called "mozilla_fonts" that will make your fonts nice in firefox and mozilla.

To install it

* open up a shell window
* type "su" and hit enter
*Type your root password
* Type "pkg_add -r mozilla-fonts" and hit enter.

If it isn't allready, this should be made into a PBI package!

[Dingens]

thank you! but i don´t won´t to do it for every app! isn´t there a "global" solution?

[toadlife]

You don't have to do it for every app. It's just firefox that has that special package. Most other apps in KDE share fonts.

[Charles]

How about for OpenOffice.org?

[Dingens]

with oo it's the same problem. you will see with the follwing screenshots!

:arrow: installed ms fonts
:arrow: installed qt engine

sharp ms fonts in kde enviroment:


unsharp fonts with open office (pc-bsd):


sharp fonts with open office (win):


unsharp fonts in firefox (pc-bsd):


sharp fonts in firefox (win):


i think, this make it quite clear :-)

[Charles]

Mmmh... If some one knows how to fix OO.o, I'd be more than happy to do so, and release new versions. I am very picky with fonts.

[Dingens]

i think it is a generally problem. it's not only in this apps you see above. it is in all apps that are not "native" kde apps.

what could i do? if anyone have a link to a howto or something like this, it would be great.

[popey]

It looks like your fonts on windows have no anti-aliasing/font smoothing applied while in PCBSD they have. Font smoothing probably doesn't work well with your monitor so I would suggest turning it off. Curiously, your unsharp fonts look far superior on my lcd monitor, your windows fonts look very jagged.

[Charles]

Here his windows screenshots look a lot better on either my LCD or CRT screens. They look sharper.