This is with Wolverine. . Fire up KDE and fire up konqueror. The default is non anti-aliased fonts. Make sure this is the case to observe the ugly fonts. . Go to http://slashdot.org/ Look at the article headings - the font is very poor and ugly. Characters run into one another and the whole thing is blocky. Even without anti-aliased fonts, Linux can do much much better than this! I wouldn't recommend putting on anti-aliasing by default because it is resource intensive. . Tim Waugh suggested that this could be because I don't have 100dpi-fonts installed. I've checked, and I do have them installed. . This is not the same issue as the Abiword issue either (as a recap, if Abiword is installed, then Netscape renders ugly blocky fonts).
can you please do a chkfontpath --list?
Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi 9: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 10: /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType 11: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 12: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled 13: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc 14: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1 15: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc:unscaled 16: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc
Aha Got the culprit. . rpm -e XFree86-ISO8859-7-Type1-fonts . And the fonts look OK again. Very strange - they are low in the fontpath pecking order.
This should be fixed in 2.1-10 (it sets the correct charset for your language).
Created attachment 14563 [details] Shows gross font problem with XFree86-ISO8859-7-Type1-fonts installed
Sorry I have to re-open. Not fixed with qa0401. . Take a look at the .jpg I just uploaded. It shows two xmag's of Konqueror rendering slashdot.org. One xmag is with XFree86-ISO8859-7-Type1-fonts installed and the other is without. Guess which is which :-) As we can see, the fonts rendered with that package installed are very very poor. . But wait. There is more. I just tracked down _another_ set of fonts, which when installed, cause ugly font rendering. The faulty fonts are this time from "abiword". Damn Abiword fonts! They also make Netscape render very ugly fonts. . It would be great if a full install of RH7.1 manages to still render pleasant fonts. I really do think that these ugly font issues make Linux look pretty lousy to newcomers.
This was perhaps related: #13889. Also, Abiword: #18855
Still bust in RH7.2beta3 At _least_ the poxy Abiword fonts are still causing trouble. rpm -e abiword made web browsing tolerable again :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18855 ***