Hi Alban, > "Another issue I have noticed for the Qt devices is they all seem to > use the > Hershey fonts. Do you have any present plans to use the powerful Qt > font > and text layout facilities (e.g. for Complex text layout languages > like > Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, etc.) to render text?" > No, we don't, simply because the required effort was not worth it in > QSAS. They don't look that bad on the Qt driver as it does > antialiasing. > Maybe in a future development, but we have many other priorities on > QSAS!
This is actually quite "easy". Looking at the psttf and cairo code I wrote some abstracted functions, since I actually use 3 different backends for the wxWidgets driver, all with it's own font handling code. It's more or less including one function and providing another function which does the actual "font rendering". I can add part of this code to the qt driver and write some comments where code is then missing, which is then to be filled out by you. As long qt knows unicode (100% sure) and knows how to rotate and shear fonts (quite sure) this should be one hour of work (and a day of debugging ;). If you don't object I'll try that. Regards, Werner > > Just remind me if I have forgotten to reply to one of your questions! > > Cheers, > > Alban > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source > code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [email protected] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
