On 2009-03-06 10:14-0000 Alban Rochel wrote: > 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.
This sounds like an excellent plan to obtain this much-desired functionality for the qt device driver. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
