Hi Werner, Werner Smekal wrote: > 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.
Well, if you have the courage to do that, I have no objection of course and I will try to complete your work. Thanks! Feel free to contact me if anything is unclear in my code. > Regards, > Werner 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
