[Scribus] Problems with Scribus.

[Bill Carini]

I just realized that I have had my display preferences set to zoom in at 114%.
So this fits under the "[Scribus] Zooming and editing Text" thread from July.

When I set my display preference to 100% the characters display just fine.
 
--Bill

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:50:13PM -0400, Peter Linnell wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:39, Bill Carini wrote:
> > 
> > I have the same problem. The characters are squished together on the display,
> > but they look fine when printed (see attached screenshots). So don't alter
> > the spacing until you see how the printed page or PDF looks. I was hoping that
> > upgrading to Qt 3.2 would solve this problem, but it hasn't.
> > 
> > I think someone said that this is an XFree issue. Any ideas for making
> > the display more closely resemble the printout?
> 
> I suspect looking at the screen cap, this is one of the ghostscript
> fonts, aliased as Helvetica. 
> 
> I would try the following:
> 
> If you run KDE, install the MS webfonts and install them as root via
> Kfontinstaller with the option to create .afm files. Replace the current
> font with Arial medium.  The rendering on screen should be much better.
> 
> This tends to fix this type of problem. Qt 3.2 does help, in reducing
> jagged font display, especially when freetype2 installed and Scribus is
> compiled using the freetype2 devel libs. It is also faster in redraws.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Peter
> 

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