[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 106990] font rendering got worse looking in 5.3.2.2 ( for Default rendering, OpenGL not affected) (devEval comment 60)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106990

--- Comment #107 from JeffD <jeffdavis at openmailbox.org> ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #100)
> AFAICS the griping about LibreOffice being a volunteer project in the bug is
> counter-productive when it comes to interesting volunteer developers in
> fixing it - also by now this bug is far too long to read in any tractable
> time for a volunteer. I would suggest that we close this bug, and create a
> series of new issues. 
> 
> Ultimately - I'm fairly convinced that Microsoft's new / DirectWrite
> rendering is a performance horror, and that by far the best approach would
> be to go to freetype-everywhere. Unfortuantely that is a chunk of work, and
> leaves us with some serious printing problems - Windows not providing any
> sensible print / output API unfortunately such as eg. PDF (and XPS hardly
> counts).

AFAICS, the "griping" was not about LO being a volunteer project, but about the
quality of the software.  And as for the "griping" being "counter-productive",
it appears that the problem would never have been taken at all seriously
otherwise.  But now, after over a year and a half there is at least a
workaround, even as other regressions have been as much as promised.

But I'll try to leave it alone now, as I have returned to OpenOffice so I don't
have to deal with the continual regressions and be accused of "griping" for
expecting a functional product.

Thanks.

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