A Dilluns, 15 de juny de 2009, Paul Gideon Dann va escriure: > On Thursday 11 June 2009 20:07:11 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > These patches are not complete and need some adjustments; although, I > > > have good version of it locally for some time already, so in case > > > Albert wants, I can merge those. > > > > As i already said i don't see a real need for it and sadly politics will > > kick in an get us in a discussion i don't want to be in, so let's just > > put them on hold for the time being. > > Well, the need is simply that many people (myself included) find it > difficult to read e-books in Okular because of the lack of subpixel font > rendering.
You still have to show me a PDF that has better font rendering in Cairo than in Splash (not that i say it is not better/worse, but you failed to provide evidence) > Of course there *is* a political aspect to linking a Qt interface to a > Cairo backend, but then there's a legal aspect to including the bytecode > interpreter in FreeType, and that doesn't prevent them from making it an > option. I'm not saying the Cairo backend for the Qt wrapper should > necessarily be available by default, just that it should be an option. > (You'll notice that it can already be easily switched on and off.) > > If it were merged, I would expect most distros to ship with it disabled > (just like the FreeType example), but then at least people like me that > compile "lcd" versions of Xft and Cairo can have subpixel rendering if we > want... No, most distros would compile it enabled because Cairo is cool and then i would have a horde of Qt purists/trolls shouting me because now they have to install the Cairo shit to view PDF, and sincerely, i prefer you (1 person) to all Qt purists/trolls shouting at me. Albert > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
