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<authorgroup>
<author
> <firstname
>Mike</firstname
> <surname
>McBride</surname
> </author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>KDE British Conversion</contrib
></othercredit>
</authorgroup>

<date
>2002-02-12</date>
<releaseinfo
>3.00.00</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>KControl</keyword>
<keyword
>fonts</keyword>
</keywordset>
</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="fonts">

<title
>Fonts</title>

<para
>This module is designed to allow you to easily select different fonts for different parts of the &kde; Desktop.</para>

<para
>The panel consists of different font groups to give you a lot of flexibility in configuring your fonts: </para>

<itemizedlist
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>General:</guilabel
> (Used everywhere the other font groups don't apply)</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>Fixed width:</guilabel
> (Anywhere a non-proportional font is specified)</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>Toolbar:</guilabel
> (Font used in &kde; application toolbars)</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>Menu:</guilabel
> (Font used in &kde; application menus)</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>Window Title:</guilabel
> (Font used in the window title)</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><guilabel
>Taskbar:</guilabel
> (Font used in the taskbar panel applet).</para
></listitem
> </itemizedlist>

<para
>Each font has a corresponding <guibutton
>Choose...</guibutton
> button. By clicking on this button, a dialogue box appears. You can use this dialogue box to choose a new font, font style, size and character set. Then press <guibutton
>OK</guibutton
>.</para>

<para
>An example of the font you have chosen will be displayed in the space between the font group name and the choose button.</para>

<para
>When you are done, simply click <guibutton
>OK</guibutton
>, and all necessary components of &kde; will be restarted so your changes can take affect immediatly.</para>

<para
>Finally, there is a check box to enable Anti-Aliasing for fonts. The ability to use Anti Aliased fonts and icons requires that you have support in both X and the &Qt; toolkit, and that you have suitable fonts installed, and are using the built in font serving capabilities of the X server. If you still are having problems, please contact the appropriate &kde; mailing list, or check the <acronym
>FAQ</acronym
>.</para>

<para
>The <guibutton
>Adjust All Fonts...</guibutton
> allows you to quickly set a property or set of properties of all the fonts selected above. A font selection dialogue similar to the standard one will appear, but you will notice checkboxes that allow you to change the <guilabel
>Font</guilabel
>, <guilabel
>Font style</guilabel
> or <guilabel
>Size</guilabel
> independently of each other. You can choose any one, two, or three of these options, and they will be applied to all the font groups.</para>

<para
>For example, if you have selected several different font faces above, and realise they are all a size too big (this often happens when you change screen resolution, for instance), you can apply a new font size to all the fonts, without affecting your customised font faces and styles.</para>

<sect2 id="fonts-author">
<title
>Section Author</title>

<para
>This section written by Mike McBride <email
>mpmcbride7@yahoo.com</email
></para>

<para
>Slightly updated for &kde; 2.2 and 3.0 by Lauri Watts <email
>lauri@kde.org</email
></para>


<para
>KDE British Conversion Malcolm Hunter <email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></para>

</sect2>
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