On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 19:09, Ing. Jozef Sakalos wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2003 20:55, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Ing. Jozef Sakalos wrote: > > > I attach the snapshot of how the font looks in scribus compared > > > to openoffice. Of course, font rendering doesn't depend on an > > > application on my system - openoffice is used only by chance. > > > > > > The only exception is scribus - fonts look horrible on the page > > > but they look perfect on font face selection menus. > > > > If the page width is below about three quarters of the screen > > width (adjusted either with View > some zoom factor, or with > > Edit > Preferences > General > tab Display > Adjust Display size) > > I see the same phenomenon. > > > > On both KDE3 and Blackbox, SuSE 8.2. > > > > However, the text displays fine if the zoom factor is larger than > > that. > > > > SH > Hi Sjoerd, > > now we are at the bottom of the problem. I adjusted the Display size > to 136% as then I had paper:display 1:1. > > When I put it back to 100% and view is also "Actual size" the font > rendering is fine - like in other applications (KDE 3.1.2, SuSE > 8.2). > > The moment I adjust View or Display size fonts go astray. > > It's definitely problem of Scribus not being able to render zoomed > fonts correctly.
If you set the display size to 100% in preferences, Zoom in at all levels should work well - if freetype2 is working properly. Above 100% freetype2 performs all the screen font rendering for Scribus. Moreover, this will be improved when Qt 3.2, See: http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/screen/qt32b1.png Once Qt 3.2 is a final release, I think this will be a must upgrade for regular Scribus users - assuming nothing else gets broken. It has lots of fixes which improve both speed and image quality rendering on the canvas. I am quite pleased with the improvements. How I built qt 3.2 alongside qt 3.1.2 - which is what my KDE 3.1.1 was compiled with. download the qt beta source make directory /usr/local/qt32 cd /usr/local/qt32 untar the source here export QTDIR=$PWD ./configure -system-zlib -qt-gif -system-libpng -system-libjpeg \ -plugin-imgfmt-mng -thread -no-stl -no-g++-exceptions make symlinks sub-src sub-tools then after Qt is compiled: export QTDIR="/usr/local/qt32" before running ./configure && make make install in the Scribus source tree then simply export QTDIR="/usr/local/qt32" before launching scribus from the console Regards, Peter
