From koffice  Tue Nov 30 08:12:59 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:12:59 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: kword screen font handling
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, dep wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>
>|?????????? 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.
>
>they look rough. indeed, i think this may be a qt thing, because
>fonts often look pretty bad in other kde apps as well. indeed, utopia
>is the only one here that i can feel confident will display
>acceptably in a broad range of sizes. for the longest time i thought
>it was X, but then i saw the maxwell implementation. klyx does some
>pretty good work in this regard, too. is it using QPainter?

Well, this looks pretty much that you use non-scaleable fonts in most cases
(except utopia). And QPainter uses just X...

-- 
Reggie