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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord and bitmap fonts
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-07-26 8:08:39
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On Thursday 25 July 2002 22:02, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> Since that time, I had not many problems anymore.

Then you're lucky, or you're not testing with many fonts.

> > The real long term solution for this is being worked on - Keith suggested
> > that we "cheat" on the DPI value, passing a DPI value to libXft that is
> > calculated so that it "includes the desired zoom level". This needs a Qt
> > API change though, so it can't be done right now.
> 
> Then it is again for systems *with* libXft!

Yes. Note how much KWord sucks already on systems without Xft:
it takes _ages_ to start up, because creating a 250pt font with the direct
X API is very slow (with Xft it doesn't need to load the glyphs when only querying
for the font metrics, with X it does). Koos's posts about the slow startup were
solved in private mail - he forgot to compile Qt with Xft support. After doing that,
it starts up very fast again - for the reason mentionned above.

Well. It will still work on systems without Xft, but only as much as it works
currently (slow startup, rounding errors at zoom levels != 100%). You can't
make gold from dust (just made that up, I'm sure there's a better proverb :).

Anyway, libXft2 is coming, which works on all systems, even those without
the RENDER extension. This is the long term solution.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice 1.2 RC1 is slightly delayed. Stay tuned.
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