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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Anti-aliased fonts
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-08-04 22:15:12
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No, it's not fast enough for realtime editing. No client based solution will be.

On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, Richard Moore wrote:
> Could we steal the code from this?
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/08/04/933757696.html
> 
> Xpdf 0.90
> Frederic L. W. Meunier - August 04th 1999, 05:08 EST 
> Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. It also comes
> with two other programs: pdftops and pdftotext which convert PDF files
> to postscript and plain text respectively. Xpdf is designed to be small
> and efficient. It does not use the Motif or Xt libraries. It uses
> standard X fonts. 
> 
> Changes: Anti-aliased fonts. This release uses t1lib to render embedded
> Type 1/1C fonts (and the base 14 fonts); added "backward" and "forward"
> buttons, fit-page and fit-page-width zoom factors and Japanese text
> support (EUC-JP) to pdftotext; type 1C fonts are converted to Type 1 and
> embedded in PostScript; support vertical Japanese text; initial support
> for PDF 1.3 and lots of other little things. 
> 
> -- 
>      Richard Moore		rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk
> http://www.robocast.com/	richard@robocast.com
> http://developer.kde.org/	rich@kde.org
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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