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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord font kerning & Qt 4
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-12-08 15:33:28
Message-ID: 13ed09c00512080733s3f5580ddj () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Simon (of TT) told me Qt4.2 will support WYSIWYG text editing, so in
> the future we'll be able to solve this problem (after rewriting some
> code in kotext).

That is good news at least.  I take it that it would be very difficult
to make improvements for KOffice 1.5?
Thanks for the DPI suggestion, I'll try that later.

On 08/12/05, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 03:18, Robert Knight wrote:
> > I wondered if there are any updates on the status of KWord's
> > well-known font-kerning problems and whether or not Qt 4 does deliver
> > the needed changes to fix these issues.
> >
> > As a newbie KOffice dev, it is very frustrating for me that I cannot
> > use KWord for day-to-day word processing because of these problems.
> > The main issue is that I always work with the zoom level set to "Fit
> > to Width", and KWord's text rendering is visually uncomfortable,
> > particularly with some common fonts like Times New Roman (which I am
> > required to use in essays and other reports).  That is, at 100% zoom
> > level, the text renders correctly but is too small.  The errors are
> > only apparent when zoomed in (something like 150% on my display).
> >
> > I have searched the mailing list archives but the technical details of
> > the problem are somewhat unclear.
>
> Simon (of TT) told me Qt4.2 will support WYSIWYG text editing, so in
> the future we'll be able to solve this problem (after rewriting some
> code in kotext).
>
> For now I would recommend trying to get a better Times New Roman
> font e.g. from a Windows installation, sadly. Another thing that might
> help is to correct the DPI value of the X server, by adding e.g.
> "DisplaySize 350 230" (in my case, for a 350mm x 230mm laptop screen,
> measure yours to write the correct values) to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> (or /etc/X11/XF86Config if you don't use xorg yet) in the "Monitor" section.
> Then 100% zoom might become useable.
>
> --
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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