<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On 16/09/2011, at 5:21 PM, Ankh'nAton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div id="ygrp-text"><p>the ugly truetype fonts in Linux come from not being anti aliased. </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Worse, our default font is actually bitmap and not truetype... We're defaulting to 6x13 when we can't find anything else because its almost the only font I can guarantee will be available on all distros.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><p>Why not<br>
use abstract fonts like labelFont, menuFont, buttonFont, textFont and let<br>
another layer translate them to Verdana,Arial,Helvetica, "Times New Roman",<br>
Times, Courier and what have you? I like the idea of the outlinerPreferences<br>
but thats only half the way, isn't it?<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yep. I'm gradually moving settings over to a single place. So keep posted and things will get easier.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><p>In my particular case I replaced all occurences of "verdana" with<br>
"helvetica" and increased all fonts by 2pts. Also I replaced all "9x13" with<br>
"Courier 14". Now it looks ok and is more readable on my 1920x1080 screen.<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>So helvetica is working for you? What distro and version are you using? And what if any extra font packages have you installed?</div><div><br></div><div>- Russell</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><p>
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