On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 12:32 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 27.03.2009 12:06, Lars Ræder Clausen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 05:13 +0100, Dia ChangeLog Daemon wrote:
> >> Snapshots available at http://www.raeder.dk/~larsrc/Dia/snapshots
> >>
> >> *** Recent ChangeLog entries:
> >>
> >> --- ChangeLog.previous     2009-03-26 05:00:12.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ dia-svn-snapshot/ChangeLog     2009-03-27 05:00:09.529464448 +0100
> >> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> >> +2009-03-25  Hans Breuer  <[email protected]>
> >> +
> >> +  * plug-ins/diapsrenderer.c : dont't throw away alignment information
> >> +  an don't scale text arbitrary, we can't predict the Latin-1 font size
> >> +  exactly enough. Fiyes bug #575186.
> > 
> > Just did some sample diagrams on 0.97-pre2 and the newest SVN, and they
> > both have severe problems with text in the PS export, as can be seen
> > with this conversion of render-test.dia. This is a regression since
> > 0.96.1.
> > 
> What's the problem in the PDF you are refering to? Maybe the overlapping 
> glyphs as in: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573261
> 
>  From my understanding this is not a regression between 0.96 and 0.97 but 
> simply some earlier unnoticed bad side-effect of Pango's font hinting.
> It should go away if you use a font without kerning information.

Yes, looks like that. However, render-test looks nice when coming from
0.96.1 on the very same setup. So either something in the rendering code
changed, or the way Dia picks the actual font has changed. I seem to
remember forcing Pango to not use hinting, did that fall by the wayside?

-Lars

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