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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kword screen font handling
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-11-29 21:25:52
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, dep wrote:
>greetings!
>
>went one subdir after another and got most of koffice to compile and
>install. nice work, guys!
>
>one item of concern is screen font handling in kword. because there's
>no way to zoom the thing up to substantial size

Because I didn't implement it yet.

> -- i'm running at
>1280x1024 -- the default is too small to be of much use. and picking
>a bigger font for ease of visibility shows that they don't display
>all that well, best i can tell. 

?????????? Can you explain that a bit better. It's QPainter and X what is used,
KWord doesn't do anything special with fonts, just QPainter::setFont(). I Mean
X doesn't offer things like anti-aliasing and so on, so we don't have that.

>which brings to mind a possibility,
>just in case it's of interest to anyone. one of the many unfinished
>-- and, best i can tell, abandoned -- linux X word processors was a
>thing called maxwell, which i bring up because it handled screen fonts
>better than anything i've seen on any platform. its little rendering
>engine was simply amazing.
>
>it's gpl'ed, i believe, so it could be that a perusal of that part of
>the code could provide something useful toward the kword project.

Nah, we can't. We use Qt and QPaintDevices. That makes things easy. So we can't
use any of that maxwell stuff for fonts. But I really don't know what they
could so so different.

-- 
Reggie

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