[poppler] Qt4 Arthur

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Friday 15 May 2009 23:19:20 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > The
> > main reason I ask is that I'd really like to see subpixel rendering in
> > Okular.  As as far as I can tell, that's not going to be possible with
> > the Splash backend.
>
> Why it's not going to be possible and why it would be possible with Arthur?

Is it possible?  I haven't been able to get subpixel rendering with Splash, 
but of course I could be missing something obvious...  I have beautiful 
subpixel rendering everywhere else via Xft and Cairo.

I figured Arthur would bring the same subpixel rendering I get everywhere else 
in KDE via Xft.

> > If there's no chance of the Arthur backend being finished any time soon,
> > I wonder would it be a stupid idea to write a Qt4 wrapper for the Cairo
> > backend?
>
> It is, noone is going to use Qt4 frontend with Cairo, politics.

Mmm, well in the long term it's not ideal, but there are quite a few of us out 
there that are pragmatists.  Most people will have Cairo installed for Firefox 
anyway.  I'm guessing it shouldn't be too hard to do, right?  I'll look into 
it further if I have the time.

Paul
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