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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: karbon, kpainter and kword
From:       Tomasz Grobelny <grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
Date:       2003-06-16 17:03:28
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On poniedziałek 16 czerwca 2003 09:43, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > The thing that I really miss in KWord is high quality text printing.
> > Looking at (not so) recent discussions on this list I assume that karbon
> > has it's own rendering classes. Karbon isn't able to print anything
> > though. Would it be hard to add printing support and use Karbon's paint
> > device in KWord?
>
> There is a not so simple way to fix this.
>
I guess you are right :-(

> Do NOT use KWord to render your text, use GhostScript.
>
It's not my problem. The glyphs themselves are perfectly ok, but spacing 
between them is a problem. I guess QPainter has too little precision to 
handle independently positioned letters. For example after each 'w' I get a 
thin space (which is of course too much-there should be none).

Tomek
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