Re: commit: Fix rounding errors when printing on gnome.

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>> This confirms that we need sub-pixel on screen positioning in order to
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>> high quality onscreen display of text.
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> That is the purpose of uwog patch that I would like to see integrated
> into the tree right after 2.4 release.
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I don't think it would. All we need to do is position the chars ON SCREEN
at a fraction of a pixel. That's the only difference when using the
unixgnomeprint graphics class. When we do that the text is beautifully
positioned.

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>> Maybe Cairo can give this to us.
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> Would still require the above.

I disagree.

> The only thing cairo would bring is a single graphic layer for all
> platform, with SVG rendering including for printing, etc.
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That is another thing it would give us. I have no idea what the
performance penalty will be though. /me swears to look through the cairo
API Real Soon Now.

Cheers

Martin

> This is the second step, and I'd love to have that done.
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> Hub
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Received on Sun Sep 18 03:15:44 2005