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From: | Riccardo |
Subject: | Re: backart - default backend? |
Date: | Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:32:45 +0100 |
Hello, On Saturday, February 19, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
XLib has major problems with: 1) Font rendering (point sizes) 2) The font panel3) Drawing to pixel instead of point. Granted, on most displays these areclose, but it's enough to be a problem.Could you please explain the problem with the font panel? That's a GUI class and I don't have any idea what the xlib backendmay do differntly here.
the fonts listed are often wrong, some may be missing. Usually I get a font called "NIL" and some fonts display white. This is reproduceable on a variety of different X servers, operating systems, etc...
the Nil font is probably an alarm bell :) -Riccardo
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