Qt-interest Archive, February 2008
Re: blurry fonts
Message 1 in thread
This looks a lot like "font hinting" to me. You might also see this
called "font smoothing". Oh OX you can turn if off or adust how
aggressive fonts are smoothed. Otherwise it's done automatically for
your display.
On Jan 27, 2008 2:41 PM, Maik Beckmann <maikbeckmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have an issue with the fonts off apps which are based on Qt4 at linux. I
> attached an png where the "File" menubar entry at
> (left to right): gtk+ - kde3 - kde4 - Qt4
> apps is shown.
>
> As you see the fonts of gtk and kde3 are same. The kde4 and qt4 fonts are the
> same too.
>
> Please focus on the "F"s in "File". The "F" of gtk/kde3 are plain lines,
> since no curves are involved. The "F" pf kde4/qt4 has something like
> shadows, which results in a blurry look.
>
> Currently I'm running arch-linux, but I saw the behavior on previous gentoo
> and debian installations when I played with qt4.
>
> The screenshots which are placed at the kde4 programming tutorials show that
> there must be a way do make the fonts in kde4 behave like those in kde3
> http://techbase.kde.org/images/a/a3/Introtokdetutorial3.png
> Just zoom and pan to "File" and compare with the screenshot I provided.
>
> My $HOME/.fonts.conf is attached. The font I'm using is Bitstream Vera Sans
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Maik
>
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