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frenetic
29th December 2008, 16:04
Hopefully this is the right forum:

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 with msttcorefonts installed. The fonts work fine in Firefox and Gnome and so on, but not in QT (4.4.3-0ubuntu1.1).

The Windows fonts show up in the list on the Qt Configuration fonts panel but look no different than the default Sans font.

I've attached an image comparing Arial in the system font preferences (left) vs. the QT Configuration (right).

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!

wysota
30th December 2008, 12:50
To me this is the same font, simply with different antialiasing mechanism applied. Arial might be setup as an alias to Sans font (there is no real font called "sans", it's an alias to Helvetica, Arial or some other sans-serif font).

frenetic
10th January 2009, 02:17
I checked for aliases but there wasn't one set. Is there a way to adjust the anti-alias style/amount? The fonts look different to me but I could easily be wrong. Thanks!