From:	 Kurt Granroth <granroth@kde.org>
To:	 Michael Hammel <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Opera and anti-aliased fonts
Date:	 Sat, 26 May 2001 00:57:46 -0700

I am a little hesitant to mention this since Opera *is* somewhat
competition for Konqueror... but in the interest of truth, I have to
admit that Opera *does* use anti-aliased fonts.

You see, you are technically right when you say that it is the Xft
library providing the anti-aliasing.  However, for KDE's point of
view, it's not Xft but Qt that is doing it.  That is, since Qt has
support for anti-aliasing (using Xft), KDE has it.

This is important because it means that *any* application that is
based on Qt can have anti-aliased text.  Opera is one such beast.  As
long as you are using the dynamically linked version of Opera, it is
capable of anti-aliased text.

To activate it, you could simply just run Opera in a anti-aliased
enabled KDE.  If you are not running KDE, then just set the
environment variable QT_XFT=1 and voila!
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