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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: CC: Re: "new" wp for linux
From:       Tomasz Grobelny <grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
Date:       2004-04-13 22:53:47
Message-ID: 200404140053.47192.grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl
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On Wednesday 14 of April 2004 00:21, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 April 2004 00:09, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 of April 2004 23:34, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > There is an additional issue with Printer rendering that KWord and/or
> > > Qt must know the resolution of the printer.
> > > My best guess is that KWord-1.3 is currently using Printer rendering so
> > > there are still slight problems.
> >
> > I doubt it since Qt prints through postscript files and that means it has
> > no knowledge about destination printer.
>
> There are case where you can fine the resolution of the destination printer
> (via QPrinter or KPrinter), but that doesn't always help anyway (worst
> example is printing to a .ps file and then printing to any printer you
> want).
>
It is only half-solution (if it works in that half). What if you want to 
publish electronic version and let everyone print it on his/her own?

> > > That is, for KWord to work correctly, Qt needs to add what I have
> > > called PostScript font rendering.
> >
> > And that means redesigning entire set of painting/font classes :-(. Why?
> > Because:
> > -Qt sets fixed width of strings in postscript files,
>
> What else would it do?
>
Rely on font metrics delivered by postscript interpreter (be it Ghostscript or 
real PS printer). It proved to work ok (same output directly on screen and 
through postscript rendered by Ghostscript). And I think you can trust 
PostScript as far as quality of printing is concerned.

> > -you can't order Qt to use only scalable fonts
>
> Actually Lars said ForceOutline should do that, and if it doesn't do it
> then it's a bug. We use ForceOutline in kotext, not sure if it makes
> a difference though.
Ok, I didn't knew about it (and it seems that now KWord uses only vector 
fonts).

Tomek
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