Thanks a lot for your explanations! Caolán McNamara wrote:
That then doesn't give stable positions for text so they change relatively depending on zoom or when the contents of the text change as you type. aka "dancing characters" or "wiggling text"
I can see that indeed using my recompiled version of LO 7.5 with forcing medium hint style, but only in calc. And there the characters don't dance while typing, though, but the position of certain characters changes when typing enter and ending the editing of a cell. This doesn't happen in 7.4, so the font code in 7.4 did things better, but I guess you changed the code to make it easier platform-independent or for some other good reason. Anyway, for me all fonts are totally fine with medium hinting, so I'd be way happier with it because I could use microsoft fonts in the thinner version. People who explicitely set a font hinting style usually know what they are doing and why the want it. But to prevent font issues by chance because of font settings someone is not aware of, one could add a SAL_ALLOW_SYSTEM_FONTHINTING variable that must be set to true to keep the hintstyle that is found in "cairo_font_options_get_hint_style(pFontOptions)" instead of downgrading it to slight. I wouldn't mind trying to write a patch for such a variable if there is a chance it could be accepted...? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *
