A Dimarts, 16 de juny de 2009, Paul Gideon Dann va escriure: > On Monday 15 June 2009 22:19:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > 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) > > Fair enough :) It really applies to pretty much any PDF containing text. > I'll pick as an example the "Little Manual of API Design": > > PDF: > http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf > > Splash: > http://content.screencast.com/users/giddie/folders/Poppler/media/bedb904f- > eedb-4899-ba90-759ab7b08ce1/api-design_splash.png > > Cairo with FIR5 and Slight Hinting: > http://content.screencast.com/users/giddie/folders/Poppler/media/1fe79252- > a8f9-4741-b354-a06baf3dc0ed/api-design_cairo-fir5-slighthint.png
Right they do different and i can agree the second looks somewhat better, still my local Splash copy renders different than yours and looks a bit like the Cairo one, don't ask me why. > > > 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. > > Hehe, nice line :) I understand your position, and maybe you're right. I > think you're underestimating distro packagers though. They're aware of the > politics, and 90% of the time it's the packagers that have to take the flak > from users, so I know they consider their options carefully. Your experience with packagers is different than mine. > I have to admit to being caught a little off-guard by your argument. > Surely we want to provide choice, don't we? To a degree yes, but adding Cairo to the Qt4 frontend is a choice i don't feel like giving at the moment, sorry. Feel free to have your own poppler git repo with your patches. Albert > Some distros are purist, some > are liberal. If you don't merge this for fear of upsetting the purists, > you're cheating the liberals. If you provide the choice, the decision (and > responsibility) is theirs and not yours. > > 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
