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 PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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