[poppler] Qt4 Arthur

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 16 de maig de 2009, Paul Gideon Dann va escriure:
> 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... 

Splash uses FreeType for fonts so if freetype has subpixel rendering (i guess 
you only want subpixel rendering for fonts?) you should be able to get it with 
some small patch here and there.

Albert

> 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