When a text run is italicized the overhanging part of the last character of that run gets chopped off. In the past this only happened on screen, but since we now support background colours different than white, it now happens also while printing; this makes it a very serious bug -- the printout looks really crappy.
The flaw is in assuming in fp_TextRun::_draw that each run and any of its parts is contained in a rectangular region, which is not true for italicized text. In order to fix this bug, we will have to replace the _fillRect calls with _fillRegion call -- this will require new pure virtual fillRegion in GR_Graphics class, plus some additional changes to the xp font handling, so that the text run can determine the overhang of text in italics. I will try to implement the xp stuff and the win32 and gtk versions of the pure virtuals over the weekend, and this is an advanced warning that the changes will break all other platforms. Tomas
