<sect1 id="fonts">
<sect1info>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Mike</firstname>
<surname>McBride</surname>
</author>
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</authorgroup>

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

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KControl</keyword>
<keyword>fonts</keyword>
</keywordset>
</sect1info>

<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>File Manager</guilabel> (Font to use in the
&kde; file manager)</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 dialog box appears.  You can
use this dialog 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 dialog 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 realize 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 customized 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 by Lauri Watts
<email>lauri@kde.org</email></para>

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