Maximal font-size khtml can display?

[Leo Savernik]

Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 schrieb Yves Glodt:
> On Friday 18 May 2007, Yves Glodt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > while I was building some kind of "status displaying website" for a
> > large screen, I came around some kind f limitation (I think) of
> > khtml.
> >
> > Is seems it can not show any fonts bigger than ~ 260px.
>
> btw, I just built webkit-qt from svn, and it does not have this
> limitation in font-size.
>
> > Take a look at the attached testcase, and try to increase the
> > font-size above 260px. Here, on 3.5.6/feisty, the fontsize does not
> > increase anymore. Opera and Firefox seem not to have this limitation,
> > they can show even font-sizes of 1000px.
> >
> > Is this a bug or a feature?

"Feature". This seems to be a remnant from the times when X11 did the font 
handling which couldn't cope with glyphs larger than 255px IIRC. With 
freetype, this feature should be obsoleted eventually.

mfg
	Leo