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    Bold font rendering problem on desktop text...

    Hi,

    Yet another 'fonty' issue!

    I've set all of the system fonts (System Settings->Appearance->Fonts) to the trusty old Windows XP 'Tahoma' 8-point. I have both the plain Tahoma (tahoma.ttf) and bold Tahoma (tahomabd.ttf) TrueType fonts installed.

    Plain text looks fine, however any system text that is in bold (buttons, taskbar text, etc) is appearing distorted (see the following pic



    (http://melvillelodge.googlepages.com/boldfonts.png)

    I have font smoothing turned off. When I turn it on, there's not really any difference.

    Any idea if it's possible to fix this? It's rather annoying!

    Cheers,

    Mike.

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    Re: Bold font rendering problem on desktop text...

    Try changing your font DPI to 120 instead of disabled. You can find it in your System Settings. I'll see if I can dig anything else up that may cause that issue, so let me know if that fixes it or not and we'll go from there. ~John~
    Slackware 12 - 32 bit on a ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE Motherboard w/ Pentium 4 3.6 gHz HyperThreaded CPU (OC&#39;d to 4.4 gHz) and 1066 mHz FSB, 4 GB US Modular Low Density DDR2 ram, eVGA Nvidia e-GeForce 6200 LE 512mb PCI-e x16 GFX video. Plays World of Warcraft great!<br /><br />Only Linux @ home since 1996

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      Re: Bold font rendering problem on desktop text...

      Hi John,

      I tried the 120DPI setting, but that just appears to bump the font size up to around 10pt, but the distortion was still there.

      I tried setting all the fonts to Arial 8pt and that seems to work okay.

      I also tried Verdana, but that appears to have the same issue as Tahoma... Weird...

      Some of the other 'built-in' Linux fonts all appear to work fine at 8pt...

      It must be some obscure issue with the rendering of Tahoma bold - it has the same issue at any point-size less than 17pt... Above that it looks fine...

      Maybe the KDE font rendering engine is doing the bold typeface itself, rather than using the actual Tahoma bold font that's installed?

      I get the feeling that this is one of those little annoyances that will be pretty hard to nail!

      Cheers,

      Mike

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