[PyKDE] eric3 anti-aliasing problem (!?)

[Sundance]

I heard Solly Brown said:

> In fact, the fonts in the
> menu-bar, tabs, and dialogs in eric3 are perfectly ok too... for some
> reason it's just the main text editing window/widget in eric3 which
> seems unable to produce anti-aliased text.

Hello Solly!

Okay, could you maybe upload a screenshot somewhere to give us a better 
idea of the issue? Who knows, maybe it's just one silly detail that we 
overlooked. :)

Fonts are Just Fine(c) here, so the problem might be on your end. I 
don't use monospace fonts either, but everything is stll smooth and 
antialiased and a delight to the eye. Yes it is.

If I can venture a blind guess, your problem looks like some font 
substitution resolving into a bitmap font, which thus doesn't scale and 
cannot be antialiased. (Bitmap fonts should die. Once I tried to remove 
them all, leaving only the pure, pristine Type1 and FreeType fonts. 
XFree refused to start. I hate XFree.)

In short... Go into Eric3's preferences and set some known-to-work font 
as the default. Courier New remains my fav' monospace font; for regular 
fonts, I use either good old faithful Arial, or Nimbus Sans L. If 
you're short on vectorial fonts, don't be afraid to install those from 
Microsoft, they're pretty darn fine. And they don't crash. You can get 
them off http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. The Nimbus fonts come with 
Ghostscript.

There, this SHOULD help. I hope.

Bye,

-- S.