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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice developers' meeting questions
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-09-08 21:00:50
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Dirk Schönberger wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> any 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.

Note that ligatures screw up indexing, but that is another issue.

--
JRT

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