The Preferences dialog can be reached by choosing in the menu.
The dialog consists of two tabs, Fonts and Rendering.
Traditionally, the TeX typsetter uses fonts that are generated by the MetaFont program. These fonts are stored in the PK format. While a carefully configured MetaFont system produces printouts of highest quality, its configuration requires serious expertise, MetaFont is not very good at producing fonts suitable for computer displays, and there are only few MetaFont fonts available for Asian languages.
To overcome these problems, newer TeX installations therefore include fonts that are stored in the "PostScript Type 1" format, which is a widely used font format in electronic publishing. KDVI is able to use both font formats.
The following picture shows the font options dialog of KDVI that can be used to control KDVI's use of the various font formats.
PostScript "Type 1" often contain "font hints", i.e. additional information that is supposed to help software produce better quality output on computer screens. The quality of the font hints varies from font to font, and you should experiment to see if enabling this option gives better results.
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