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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    KWord and bitmap fonts
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-07-21 21:22:49
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I would really like to know why we cannot support bitmap fonts in KWord.

When at the end of 2001, I reported display problems with bitmap fonts, I was 
told it was because they were bitmap fonts. However in the meantime all these 
bugs were fixed.

Since recently KWord does not support bitmap fonts because of *printing* 
problems and because they are supposed not to "scale". (See "fix" of bug 
#45434 http://bugs.kde.org/db/45/45434.html .)

Why?

I thought that the display was already made as print and as I do not see any 
problem with bitmap fonts (not even when printing or at higher zooms) I really 
do not understand.

In any case, it is not by forbidding bitmap fonts in KWord's GUI that you are 
gettting rid fo them:
- the import filters still uses them.
- if the KDE's default font is a bitmap font, KWord default font becomes a 
bitmap font too.
- on system with bitmap fonts, there is the font "Clearlyu" who makes the 
whole Unicode range. So even with another font, you get a bitmap font 
indirectly.

If this problem was *so* important, it would have needed to be treated 
accordingly. And why are the other KOffice programs still allowing bitmaps 
fonts then?

Have a nice day/evening/night!
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