[Okular-devel] [PATCH] Fix rendering of DVI documents

[Benoit Jacob]

2009/10/2 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> A Dissabte, 3 d'octubre de 2009, Benoit Jacob va escriure:
>> Again here we're talking about DVI files. We're talking about TeX
>> fonts. And specifically, the default TeX font. Which is used in a
>> large majority of TeX documents.
>
> You are talking about DVI files, i am not,

Good that you identified the precise source of misunderstanding.

> Okular is a multiformat document
> viewer and each option we add has/should apply to all the formats, so if we
> end up adding an option to set if you want hinting or not, it doesn't make
> sense to apply it to pdf rendering and not to dvi, and adding to options is an
> overkill.

I completely agree.

Notice that when I proposed my patch, the context was that Okular
didn't offer any option for controlling that, instead that was handled
in the individual generators. In that context, my patch made sense.
Now that you propose to add a global config option, the context has
changed, and my patch is no longer relevant.

>> > So yes, i've received quite a lot of hate mail regarding this issue and
>> > the tone of your mails isn't really helping much.
>>
>> I've only started being defensive in my 2 last emails. Before that,
>> the tone of my mails was 100% friendly. You, on the other hand, have
>> aggressed me ever since your first reply on kde-devel.
>
> It wasn't my intention, if you feel that saying that if you are not a font
> expert you can't conclude hinting is the root cause of a given problem is an
> attack, i'm sorry, it wasn't meant to be.

OK no need to be sorry. Rereading it it wasn't much harm.

>
>>
>> > So to recap:
>> >  * No Hinting is the default for 4.4 and the setting can be changed via
>> > the GUI
>> >  * Hinting is the default for 4.4.3 and the setting can't be changed via
>> > the GUI
>>
>> Good.
>
> Now please be patient, that won't happen today or maybe it will, but don't
> take it for granted, i've lots of things in my todo.

That's OK for me, as long as the results appear in 4.4, I think that
all is great. It doesn't affect me personnally anymore since I have
rebuilt poppler and okular with my small patches.

>
>>
>> > Do you agree on that or you prefer to continue with the flaming?
>>
>> I agree with that.
>>
>> I hate having entered in a flamewar with you and I don't want this to
>> come off as a bad experience for either of us.
>
> We're all friends here making KDE better, right?

Right !!

Benoit