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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font hinting: suggestion to consistently restrict its usage to UI
From:       Stefan Majewsky <majewsky () gmx ! net>
Date:       2009-09-29 7:24:19
Message-ID: 200909290924.23252.majewsky () gmx ! net
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Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 06:13:39 schrieb Benoit Jacob:
> * It breaks the notion of zooming. Zooming should give the user that
> he's still looking at the exact same thing, just closer. But hinting
> makes that look like a wholly different font. First, this ruins the
> user's confidence in the Zooming feature. Second, the user will often
> feel constrained to set the zoom level so that the on-screen font
> looks good / accurate.

Total agreement from my side. I have had this in Okular enough times. I'm also 
regularly using pdflatex, so my documents look similar to your test 
screenshots. It's just ugly, though I haven't been able yet to point at the 
reason.

Greetings
Stefan

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