Re: win32 zoom

Hi Martin,

> For what it's worth, it appears MS Word has similar issues with zoom as
> abiword. ie fonts substantially change their appearence at different
> zooms. Win32 users apparently have learned to put up with this.

Actually, I have tested that earlier today and Word 2000 zoom on
WinXP works better. A thing to try is 12pt Times text with 'lm'
sequence. When you zoom to 200% in AW, you will see there is
virtually no gap between l and m ('l' is relatively wider at 24pts
than it is at 12pts). In contrast in Word the same text looks neater.
Now, either Word manually repositions characters to achieve this, or
there is something in the API I have missed, or that is undocumented.

The manual repositioning is achievable but requires either overhead
on drawing ops or increase in memory footpring of 4 bytes /
character. To me the problem is not significant enough to try to deal
with this prior to 2.2 (I have too much on my Abi plate as is, as MG
kindly keeps pointing out to me :) ).

Tomas
Received on Wed Nov 3 11:25:59 2004