[scribus-dev] Scribus CTL

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 01:02:20AM +0400, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Jean Ghali wrote:
> > Le 23/02/2016 18:46, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Nice rendering. 1.5.1 on the left, HOST on the right. Characters are more rounded.
> > > 
> > > That is because we now render glyphs using the relevant Cairo APIs,
> > > instead of decomposing the glyph outlines and rendering them “manually”
> > > as vectors.
> > 
> > 
> > Just a remark. Cairo freetype backend is optional and may depend on Fontconfig or not. On
> > Windows Scribus does not have Fontconfig as a dependency. So if you use any Fontconfig
> > macro or structures, please enclose those in appropriate ifdef. Also on Windows, cairo is
> > built with the Windows font backend. So appropriate ifdef should also be used so as to use
> > glyph outlines if Freetype backend is not available.
> 
> I’ll keep that in mind. We don’t use FontConfig, and since Scribus
> already depends on FreeType, building Cairo with FreeType font backend
> adds no extra dependencies and should be a reasonable expectation (we
> should just make sure CMake checks for this).

Eventually we should evaluate porting to QPainter (at least the text
rendering code) since the current way of rendering to a Cairo image
surface and then rendering the image with QPainter is very suboptimal
(no subpixel antialiasing for example, and poor support for HiDPI
screens).

Regards,
Khaled