John Beardmore wrote: > Pierre Marchand wrote: >> Vous (John Beardmore) avez ?crit : > >>>> 1/ By design, Scribus focuses on print output. >>> Yes - it makes sense to focus on the situation where the highest >>> precision output is required, but that doesn't make it sensible to >>> (needlessly ?) compromise the way lower resolution output is handled. >> All is in the needlesslyness! I did not do it myself but I think it has >> _needed_ a pretty load of work to get the proper fix done. So, here I would >> not say that "by design" the output was bad on low resolution devices. Just >> that they were not targetted in something like "phase A". > > Yes - I may have the wrong end of the stick, but when I saw something > like 'removes the hinting', I took it that it had somehow been decided > that having it there was unnecessary / undesirable.
Not at all. It's just that converting a font to outlines cannot preserve hinting, because hinting is specific to display at particular resolutions. -- Craig Ringer
