Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > This is an expression of frustration. > > For well over a year a serious issue caused by AbiWord has been known. > The lack of interest in addressing this issue has just about deflated > my interest in AbiWord.
Bryce, I think you know that non-progress can also display inability. In this case it might be it, but then it's definitely not technical inability. I think all, even remotely, involved in AbiWord have a pretty serious interest in it. > While other major changes are going into > Abi (like multithreaded loading), and other minor changes (e.g. > named colors like "lightblue") [...] > Yet it's been closed (as "irrelevant") several times, It's not irrelevant for AbiWord. It's irrelevant in the manner it's not a bug on our behalf, it's a missing design from the ones designing X. Maybe X is coming to its end in its current incarnation? (please read on before flaming) Currently, in the "world" we need fonts that display the same way on CRT/LCD/FFT/... as on printer. Microsoft took one path, Apple has taken another path now (with Display PDF). Still, X is holding (us all) back it seems to me. Some time is the time to ditch all old cruft and create something new. If you want backwards compatibility you create a wrapper/emulation layer. Perhaps it's time the X consortium did just that? I don't know, it's just an idea. Do you know of any other WYSIWYG editors in X land that gets display and printing fonts the same without the apparent problems AbiWord has? If so, what do they do different from what AbiWord does? X seems to me to be a technology holding printing back, since no-one really _want_ to change it (X), but still almost everyone sees the need to get display and printing on-par. Perhaps suggestions to the X consortium would be better, to "make" them incorporate a "printing device" with another aspect and resolution to your screen so you could use the same code-path to _print_ as you use to display on screen? I know many bad things can (rightfully) be said about Microsoft, but this is one of the things they actually got reasonably right - over ten years ago. > This attitude towards the health and welfare of > other programs running on Linux harms AbiWord, and it's a shame. Bryce, I can't for my life believe that we have this attitude. Perhaps it's that no-one has responed since no-one feels up to taking on the X group (and it _is_ and X problem)? /Mike
