Review Request: Exact ms-word font height

[Casper Boemann]

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Ship it!


Hi It looks quite nice

Please port it to the text-layoutrestructure-boemann branch at the same time as you push it to master.

- Casper


On March 22, 2011, 11:40 a.m., Matus Hanzes wrote:
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> (Updated March 22, 2011, 11:40 a.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra, Thorsten Zachmann and Casper Boemann.
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> Summary
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> Problem with fonts in linux and windows is that true type fonts have more than one metric.
> They have normal metric placed in font header table
>           microsoft metric placed in os2 table
>           apple metric placed in os2 table
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> Ms-word is probably using CreateFontIndirect and GetOutlineTextMetric function to calculate line height and this functions are using windows gdi environment which is using microsoft font metric placed in os2 table.
> Qt on linux is using normal font metric.
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> This two metrics are different and change from font to font.
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> If caligra words on linux wants to have the same line height as ms-word, font stretch constant has to be calculated and used in text shape.
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> This is the equation which is used in text shape:
> font_size * font_stretch = windows_font_height
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> Any comments are welcome
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 7c94026 
>   libs/kotext/CMakeLists.txt 837d748 
>   libs/kotext/styles/KoCharacterStyle.h 3cec793 
>   libs/kotext/styles/KoCharacterStyle.cpp 6eaab0f 
>   plugins/textshape/TextShapeLayout.cpp ea49dc4 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100915/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Matus
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