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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: CC: Re: "new" wp for linux
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-14 7:44:36
Message-ID: 200404140944.43759.zander () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 14 April 2004 00:53, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > > 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.

Ehh; no postscript does not work that way; the application has to set the
exact text, position and width for each text part (probably per line).
If you didn't the postscript printer would have to move text to the next page 
if it did not fit anymore; and that really is impossible using PS.

- -- 
Thomas Zander
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