On Monday 09 July 2001 21:47, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:17:52PM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 06 July 2001 16:34, David Faure wrote:
> > > After all the discussions about the WYSIWYG problems in KWord, and
> > > after reading a little bit of Abiword's source code (it turns out Abiword
> > > does it the way I thought, but at least it confirms my idea about it ;), I
> > > have started to implement a solution in KWord. Obviously, this is about
> > > doing the layout at a constant, precise resolution (1440 DPI is what I
> > > found in abiword and it sounds ok to me), with big fonts, and displaying
> > > the stuff with smaller fonts but using that precise layout.
> > > This requires to change a lot of KWord's code (not the class design, but
> > > all the coordinate conversions), so this won't go in before KOffice-1.1.
> > 
> > IMHO this is a ship stopper for koffice 1.1....
> 
> Maybe; but the release itself brings _SO_ much improvement over the 
> 1.0 version...
> 
> I prefer the; 'release early, release often' phrase here, otherwise we 
> will never release.

Yes. Besides I tried fixing this already (forked the source on one of my machines),
and it's a big change, breaking a lot of stuff. Better do it AFTER 1.1, not before.
Can't be done before. I'll also need some input from some font experts :}

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