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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: karbon, kpainter and kword
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2003-06-17 20:04:36
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:18:11PM +0200, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> On wtorek 17 czerwca 2003 16:03, Dirk Sch?nberger wrote:
> > on RGBA images. Freetype renders only to bitmaps (1 bitplane) or greymaps,
> True.
> 
> > AFAIK. This means you would have to somehow mix / compose two rendered
> > images.
> And does it change if we render fonts not using freetype?
> 
> > Sometimes it is wanted that you get "readable" Postscript or PDF documents,
> > e.g. if you want to index them or search in them.
> > PDF and Postscript can have a multiple roles.
> >
> Hmm... And couldn't it have multiple "layers"? I mean a text layer (for 
> indexing) and presentation layer (for printing and the like). But don't ask 
> "how?".

You missed Dirk's point.
Print a text from KWrite to a postscript and open that postscript file; you'll
be able to find your original text in the postscript file again.

If you 'interpret' the font and just put strokes in the output file as vector
that in the end will indeed look like text; you will never find that text
in the output file.

Google can search for texts and find that text in a pdf, you loose that
ability.

-- 
Thomas Zander

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