Re: evince does not respect system font rendering configuration



Excerpts from Auguste Pop's message of vie oct 15 08:55:07 +0200 2010:
> Hi,

Hi, 

> I am not a native speaker, please endure my poor English.

no problem. 

> I have been using evince for a while and i noticed that evince does
> not respect my system settings of font rendering when displaying pdf
> files.
> 
> I have searched the web and find several threads and pages talking
> about this issue. Several different patches exist to solve this
> problem. In most cases, the patch hard-code the subpixel settings in
> function pdf_page_render. However, these kind of patches were rejected
> because of the coding style.
> 
> My question is since evince is apparently a gnome application, why not
> use the according gconf to initialize the appropriate
> cario_font_options_t and pass it to the surface?
> 
> IMHO, poppler is a library and thus it does not necessarily provide
> the user settings of the system. It should be the library user's (in
> this case, evince) responsibility to set the according variables
> sensible.

It's a known poppler/cairo issue indeed, see this bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307

specially comment 25

> I am not familiar with all the fontconfig, cairo, poppler thing, and I
> am not sure if getting the subpixel rendering is as simple as setting
> the appropriate font options. If it is not the case, please ignore
> this nonsense.
> 
> Thank you for you kind attention.

Regards, 
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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