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Improved font rendering?
by renoX on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @11:00

While the press release talks about improved font rendering, the corresponding screenshot didn't impress much: the "blackness" of characterier is irregular: the 'y' in Kylie looks darker than the other character.. :-(

I hope that's because the screenshot was here to demonstrate the 'flakes' and that the font rendering was correctly set..

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Re: Improved font rendering?
by renoX on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @11:00

was correctly set --> wasn't correctly set.

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Re: Improved font rendering?
by Robert Knight on Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @12:27

I think what the press release intended to say was better text layouting. The actual rendering of individual characters is still problematic as you can see (that is, they do not look sharp as they should).

The layouting is hugely improved over KWord 1.x with characters not jumping around all over the place any more. In fairness this was always a slightly system and font specific issue with some fonts working pretty well and others producing very strange results.

For the fonts I have tested, which includes the selection of free fonts that comes with Kubuntu, Nimbus and Gentium (my personal preference) and of course Microsoft's standards (Times New Roman, Arial etc.) the layouting of characters seems to behave much more consistently.

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Re: Improved font rendering?
by boemer on Friday 03/Aug/2007, @01:31

To be honest, only the text in the last screenshot looks a little strange. The fonts for the dialogs everywhere look very good...

We'll see when screenshots of KWord 2 arrive....

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