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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice developers' meeting questions
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2003-09-08 20:36:56
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> > I think if you add kerning support at QPainter level you end with e.g.
> > Postscript output, where the text doesn't resemble the intended text,
but
> > instead some fragments of characters or glyphs. You cannot index the
result
> > Postscript anymore, because the text strings doesn't appear anly longer
in
> > the Postscript output.

> I don't think so.  At least WordPerfect -- which makes a PS file with the
> text as text rather than hex -- doesn't change the text strings when you
> use kerning.

> AFAIK, you just need to use: "kshow" with the proper arguments.

I found some nice introduction to text output with Postscript.

http://www.id.unizh.ch/publications/ps/text.html

Thanks for the kshow hint.

Regards
Dirk

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