Hi, > I noticed that the rendering of DVI documents was broken exactly in > the same way as what I observed with PDF documents, namely, it used > auto-hinting which looks especially bad with TeX fonts.
(Arguable.) > Attached is a 1-line patch that changes it. I need your permission to > commit. I'd object, see below. > Third, the old KDVI used to not do any hinting, I'm completely sure of > that because I've spent hundreds of hours looking at documents in it. > I remember distinctly the (imho beautiful) slightly fuzzy look of the > TeX fonts in it, that is characteristic of non-hinted text, although > at that time I didn't know about hinting. That said, I used "svn > annotate" to see who enabled hinting in the C++ code, and it turns out > to be Stefan Kebekus himself in an old revision (240000-something). I > am puzzled about that, but I still maintain that KDVI didn't use > hinting on all the Linux systems that I tried. My best guess is that > Stefan Kebekus _thought_ that he had enabled hinting but for some > reason it wasn't used. I haven't investigated further as this is quite > intricate, and of course I only have Okular's code at hand, I haven't > looked at the actual KDVI code. Given the code used by Okular to render DVI documents is taken from KDVI, and (you say) that they render differently, then what I would prefer is to find out what are the real changes in that regard, as opposed to change values on personal liking. -- Pino Toscano
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