[Open Office] Re: Advanced Font Properties Question(Freetype+Fontconfig)

[michael meeks]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:20 +0100, Jan Uhlir wrote:
> For me it's seems to be easier to implement advanced font properties
> for VLC for now.
> At least check - hinting, autohinting, antialiasing, bitmap -
> properties from fontconfig and try to apply them to OOo glyphs.
> I'm just a humble Java programmer with just a little real C++
> experience.
> 
> Can I ask again who is author of this patch?
> http://ooo.ximian.com/patches/test/vcl-font-hinting.diff

	Me.

> ..and what is the purpose of the patch and why is in testing directory?
> It seems to be a good starting point for me.

	The problem with this (AFAIR) is that it screws up ~every document
you're likely to load wrt. metrics; ie. it substantially changes the
glyph sizes and hence the positioning & layout of the whole document.
That's not something we want to happen.

	Of course - I may be mistaken - and/or some subset of these flags might
be usable without that sort of failure; if so - go for it - prove me
wrong ;-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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