Re: Xft vs. old font stuff

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 06:53:38 EDT

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    On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:

    > Keeping in the tradition to reply to myself, I've finally been able to
    > fix the first problem without doing big changes. Btw I've been pissed
    > by 2 classical: macros and fix sized buffers.
    >
    > I was trying to output with UT_DEBUGMSG a string of ~4000 chars (of
    > course, I didn't knew that it was so big), and abiword was bombing. And
    > I was absolutely lost in gdb, because UT_DEBUGMSG is a macro (now that I
    > know where the problem was, it seems stupid that I didn't see it before,
    > but the gdb backtrace was looking like garbage to me)
    >
    > Enough for a rant.
    >
    > Every font that I've used is working ok, except the Hershey family, that
    > I can select, but that for some weird reason it's giving me an ascender
    > and descender ridiculously little (maybe a bug in the font, in freetype,
    > in my code, on in a combination of these).
    >
    > Everything else is working fine (and looking at the number of bug that
    > I've fixed, it's working much better than before), except for the little
    > "Times New Roman" bug.
    >
    > When it will be fixed, I will post my last patch, and then I will update
    > it to HEAD and commit if nobody sees a problem.
    >

    HI Joaquin,
               Please go ahead and commit when you're ready. You should also
    check that DingBat fonts work.

    I'm looking forward to getting rid of xap_FontManager.cpp etc.

    Cheers

    Martin



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