Andy, The desktop has got 128mb ram (pc100), my laptop has got 196mb. I think that is the problem with the load times when AA is turned on, because it doesn't seem to affect my laptop at all. It's the font problem that irks me. I've figured out that it is tied to AA, with it turned off the fonts don't show up on my desktop either. And my laptop doesn't support AA yet so I'm plum out of luck as they say. Have you heard of any work-arounds to trick kde into thinking I've got AA support? I've had problems printing with cups and libkdeprint. The only hadk I can figure out (until cups supports it) is to use lpd to print anythign with ttf's. Then it works fine, but you lose the advanced features of cups...it's all a balancing act. Mandrake 8.1 is out soon, perhaps they will fix some of these problems. Wes Andy Stewart (andystewart@mediaone.net) wrote:
HI Wes,
How much memory do you have in this machine? I've seen KDE take forever when it is memory limited, hence my question. Also, are you running anything which is CPU intensive when you're trying to start KDE?
I am also running KDE 2.2, and I downloaded those MS truetype fonts using the script supplied by SuSE 7.2. I like the look! Although I haven't tried anything funky like Greek or Hebrew, what I have tried seems to work pretty well. However, I have infinite memory (256 MB), and my processor is dual PIII/450.
I did try printing a mail message directly from KMail, but that didn't work for some reason (not sure if the problem was KDE or CUPS). File...SaveAs and then print did work.
Later,
Andy
On Saturday 01 September 2001 10:15 am, you wrote:
Well, I've finally gotten kde 2.2 installed and I love the new libkdeprint. I'm a pastor by trade and have been stuck in windows because I need some pretty funky Greek and Hebrew fonts for my weekly research; fonts which I can only find in .ttf format and couldn't be printed at any rate (yes, I know there were fixes, I never got one to work for me). Now with kde 2.2 I can at last use these fonts in Linux, with one major glitche...
1) They only show up in my "usable fonts" combo box in koffice when anti-aliasing is turned on. This would not be a problem except for the fact that... a) My pitifully Celeron 366 take FOREVER to load kde programs with anti-aliasing turned on (ever waited 30 seconds for a shell to open up, it's not fun...)
b) My laptop's display isn't supported by kde's anti-aliasing yet (Inspiron 3800). So my primary research tool can't be used.
Any ideas/workarounds/hacks to overcome this glitch?
Also, with anti-aliasing turned on, my desktop machine won't allow me to submit forms (like e-mail), in konqueror. Any ideas? (I'm going to submit a bug report).
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This is weird. I have KOffice 1.1 (rc1) installed, KDE 2.2, CUPS 1.1.9, and XFree86 4.1.0 (SuSE 7.2 PRO). I've also noticed that freetype is installed on my machine (freetype2 v2.0.1 and freetype 1.3.1). I don't appear to be running a font server (at least not xfs or xfstt). My video card is a Matrix G400. I ran the SuSE supplied script for fetching the ttfs and installing them. The script is called fetchmsttfonts and it is contained in SuSE's xf86-tools package. It looks to be pretty distribution neutral. I think the only other thing that I did was to add the font path so that the X server could find the fonts. I created a quick doc in KOffice with three different ttfs and printed it no sweat. I got the fonts from the evil empire's website. Anti aliasing is definitely enabled in the KDE control panel (Look and Feel -> Fonts). I do notice that kmail files don't print directly from kmail. (The pstoraster process from CUPS runs seemingly forever and I'm not sure why). How many true type fonts to you have loaded up? I only have 11 that KOffice can see. I'm not sure what else to check. Does anybody else have any ideas? I'm trying CUPS 1.1.10 now to see if that solve the kmail printing problem. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org On Monday 03 September 2001 08:54 am, Wesley Allen wrote:
Andy, The desktop has got 128mb ram (pc100), my laptop has got 196mb. I think that is the problem with the load times when AA is turned on, because it doesn't seem to affect my laptop at all. It's the font problem that irks me. I've figured out that it is tied to AA, with it turned off the fonts don't show up on my desktop either. And my laptop doesn't support AA yet so I'm plum out of luck as they say. Have you heard of any work-arounds to trick kde into thinking I've got AA support?
I've had problems printing with cups and libkdeprint. The only hadk I can figure out (until cups supports it) is to use lpd to print anythign with ttf's. Then it works fine, but you lose the advanced features of cups...it's all a balancing act. Mandrake 8.1 is out soon, perhaps they will fix some of these problems.
Wes
Andy Stewart (andystewart@mediaone.net) wrote:
HI Wes,
How much memory do you have in this machine? I've seen KDE take forever when it is memory limited, hence my question. Also, are you running anything which is CPU intensive when you're trying to start KDE?
I am also running KDE 2.2, and I downloaded those MS truetype fonts using the script supplied by SuSE 7.2. I like the look! Although I haven't tried anything funky like Greek or Hebrew, what I have tried seems to work pretty well. However, I have infinite memory (256 MB), and my processor is dual PIII/450.
I did try printing a mail message directly from KMail, but that didn't work for some reason (not sure if the problem was KDE or CUPS). File...SaveAs and then print did work.
Later,
Andy
On Saturday 01 September 2001 10:15 am, you wrote:
Well, I've finally gotten kde 2.2 installed and I love the new libkdeprint. I'm a pastor by trade and have been stuck in windows because I need some pretty funky Greek and Hebrew fonts for my weekly research; fonts which I can only find in .ttf format and couldn't be printed at any rate (yes, I know there were fixes, I never got one to work for me). Now with kde 2.2 I can at last use these fonts in Linux, with one major glitche...
1) They only show up in my "usable fonts" combo box in koffice when anti-aliasing is turned on. This would not be a problem except for the fact that... a) My pitifully Celeron 366 take FOREVER to load kde programs with anti-aliasing turned on (ever waited 30 seconds for a shell to open up, it's not fun...)
b) My laptop's display isn't supported by kde's anti-aliasing yet (Inspiron 3800). So my primary research tool can't be used.
Any ideas/workarounds/hacks to overcome this glitch?
Also, with anti-aliasing turned on, my desktop machine won't allow me to submit forms (like e-mail), in konqueror. Any ideas? (I'm going to submit a bug report).
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