On Wednesday 22 September 2004 21:20, Chris Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 02:54 pm, Craig Bradney wrote: > > While I squashed that theory quickly > > And verified. I took a leap and grabbed the latest development snapshot of > what will be freetype-2.1.10, created a 2.1.10_alpha ebuild, installed it > and remerged scribus-cvs. Wow, what a difference in the outlines. And the > pdf export now looks correct.
cool. > As a plus Firefox isn't crashing on Helvetica like it did with 2.1.9, but > both Firefox and Xorg have been upgraded since I last had 2.1.9 as well. > > > Do a print preview. Do you get the last 3 letters shown as solid and not > > oulines? > > Yes, same problem. ok, this doesnt always happen as I used outlines in my magazine and I havent seen this. Will see what happens there. > But print preview is often wrong, especially with > transparencies. Yes, thats because the preview is generated by ghostscript and postscript doesnt support transparencies. Depends on how you use them as to what effect this will have. Craig