[scribus-dev] Scribus CTL

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:45:39PM +0100, Jean Ghali wrote:
> Le 23/02/2016 22:31, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> >
> >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).
> 
> 
> A QPainter port is in my opinion not realistic. QPainter is missing
> functionalities related to advanced gradients, noticeably gradient masks and
> gradient meshes. For text you will have also to use the native system font
> rendering, so you should expect difficulties interfacing Scribus freetype
> based font management with Qt.

That is why it needs to be thoroughly evaluated, anyway that is unlikely
to be part of this little project since we want to minimize the changes
as possible.

Regards,
Khaled