On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > The optimal solution would seem to be to get anti-aliasable versions >> > of Helvetica and Courier. Is this possible? >> >> Yes. Any Postscript Type 1 or TrueType fonts will work. Therefore, >> you can buy fonts from a number of places, use fonts from (say) an old >> version of Adobe Type Manager, download the MS Core Fonts[1] (see the >> msttcorefonts for help), etc. I've done all of the above, though most >> of my screen fonts are the MS TTFs. >> >> >> Footnotes: >> [1] See the msttcorefonts Debian package for some details. > >I've tried msttcorefonts, but KDE doesn't appear to offer those fonts when >in Anti-aliasing mode. This may or may not be related to the fact that >msttcorefonts does not use defoma, so I'm not sure how well-installed they >are (though they seem to show up in non-AA mode).
Did you set the path in /etc/X11/XftConfig? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>