"matthias tarasiewicz" <sorry_keins...@dieseadressegibtesgarnicht.com> wrote
in message news:3cc75b65@e-post.inode.at...
> hi list
> i tried to print eht arial font that came with win2000 in 172pt from quark
> xpress into a pdf file using adobe acrobat pdf writer -- but the fonts
looks
> very ugly. looking at the font list in quark, it shows me an "o" infront
of
> the arial, making me think of arial being an opentype, not a truetype
font.
> how is it possible to print arial smooth, or where can i get a real
truetype
> version of the font?
Actually this sounds like you just need to turn on font smoothing in
Windows.
Right-click on the desktop, choose Properties, click the Effects tab, and
make sure the "Smooth edges of screen fonts" box is checked.
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