[Lilux-help] Fonts, Monitors and Graphics cards

[Patrick Kaell]

Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Hi All,
> after setting all the correct values (I hope) in xorg.conf, installing 
> Windows TrueType fonts and so on, the result is still not good.
> For a visual, please see:
> http://www.homepages.lu/pu/snapshot4.png
> The left part is how Linux (OpenOffice) shows the text; right is Windows 
> (Word). Both use the same font (Times New Roman).
> Any hints appreciated.

As I can see, your KDE doesn't use Anti Antiasing. Gnome uses it by 
default. Mozilla and Gnome use the Pango system to provide Anti Aliasing.

You can install a non Anti Aliasing Version of Mozilla if you want. Just 
do the following:

Just download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz

Close your Mozilla.

Remove the Slackware Mozilla package (as root):
removepkg mozilla-1.7-i486-1

Unpack your downloaded tarball:
tar -zxvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz

Run the installation script (as root).

Btw: Here is the official Anti Aliasing Mozilla Slackware uses (Pango 
support):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/contrib/mozilla-1.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu-gtk2-xft-pango.tar.gz

Anybody known how this is done with OpenOffice?

Greetings, Patrick Kaell