Too bold fonts.
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Tue Apr 12 00:07:24 CEST 2005
Vladimir wrote:
> Why the same font in ordinary QT widget and in ghostscript looks so differ ?
GhostScript prints, or displays the font the exact size specified in the
font file. It is anti-aliased (if you have that feature enabled
somewhere) but it is NOT hinted. You can see this if you display at 1.0
magnification and use the XMagnifier to look at the display. Some of
the vertical lines in the fonts will be anti-aliased. This does not
happen when fonts are hinted.
OTOH, when Qt displays a font on the screen, it is hinted according to
the screen resolution. This makes the glyphs slightly larger (unless
the font is monospaced) and, in some cases, makes bolder faces bolder.
IIUC, the only cure for this problem will be Qt-4 and KDE-4.
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JRT
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