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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: karbon, kpainter and kword
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2003-06-17 20:01:29
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:14:53PM +0200, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> On wtorek 17 czerwca 2003 16:12, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > > On wtorek 17 czerwca 2003 15:28, Dirk Sch?nberger wrote:
> > > > But I think there is a difference between "normal text output" (like
> > > > e.g. text labels in a GUI toolkit like Qt) and "typographical text
> > > > output" (like in a DTP program or TeX).
> > >
> > > "typographical text output" just needs to have high precision layout and
> > > be proportional (as David said).
> >
> > Fonts rendering is by definition not proportional.
> > Due to hinting and other stuff (I'm no expert) I can guarantee that a 12pt
> > font is NOT 10 times as small as the same font at 120 pt.
> You are right (I read freetype docs and checked myself) but I still don't get 
> why...

This might help:
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/expo/lw-wednesday-scalable.html

the 4 points at the bottom are the reason why scaling is hell. Its your eyes
that need it, and the hints are provided to make a font non proportional.

I.e. for a font to look good; it has to be non proportional :)

-- 
Thomas Zander

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