Re: commit (head): 7610

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> Op do, 28-10-2004 te 20:56 +0100, schreef Tomas Frydrych:
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>> This is another stab at 7610. The outstanding problem is actually
>> quite different than the original bug. It is the old problem of font
>> scaling; the win32 zoom is implemented by changing the size of the
>> font we request from the system, which results in non-linear scaling
>> of the widths. What I have done is to measure the font widths always
>> with a 100% resolution and then scaling them for our zoom. This
>> ensures that we get identical layout at all zooms, but because the
>> character advances we now use for the drawing do not match those for
>> the font if we are at other zoom than 100%, it does not look that
>> pretty. This fix is far from ideal, but is forced by bad desing. I am
>> planing to revisit the whole question of zoom once 2.2 is out of the
>> way.
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> I'd say, please do it _now_ (if you have the time)... This has been
> broken waaaaay to long imo (since 1.1.4 or something like that!).
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I think I agree. If you know how to fix it, and you think you can get it
right in less than a month, fix it now. We want 2.2 to rock.
We've all worked really hard to get where we are now, lets do this right.

Martin

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Received on Sat Oct 30 07:23:38 2004