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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: fonts
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-11-19 20:04:23
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On Monday, 19. November 2001 09:08, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Very interesting but it seems different from my KWord display problem (I
> > am not talking about the -1 font size problem.)
> >
> > I have already had the idea that the problem was more in QT, as it
> > was QT snapshot 2001-10-06 that had brought half acceptable results.
> >
> > I have just tried to comment out the :unscaled in my XF86Config.
> > Everything remains the same. Descent are partially "eaten", some spaces
> > have zero width.
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Personally, I would like that bitmap fonts would work.
>
> Why? They can never be printed, they look bad on screen and cause confusion
> on the side of the user...

Good, I am not a specialist for printing.

However, the user will still be confused when he learns that he cannot use 
Helvetica, Times, Utopia, Symbol, all the different Lucida...

And how will KFormula work if you cannot use Symbol?

I was not happy at the time of QT3 beta6 when of the 43 fonts usable by XFree 
only 9 displayed something in KWord. Would a normal user be more happy? I 
doubt...

As for printing problems, they also exists in KOffice 1.1, but the display 
problems they are new. And when a new user tests a program, he will not print 
at first.

However, these are only my 0.02 EUR...

>
> > Have a nice day/evening/night!
> >
> > On Sunday, 18. November 2001 21:30, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > Hi, I spent the better part of my sunday working with fonts. I am
> > > afraid I did not fix the bugs we have been seeing with too small fonts
> > > in KWord, but I do think I found the cause to the problems we had. Here
> > > are my results;
> > >
> > > (...)
> >

Have a nice day/evening/night!
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