On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:11 PM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday October 21 2014 05:45:51 Vadim Peretokin wrote: > >> It's not a bug, it's a feature! That is what I was told. Apparently Qt4 was >> getting the font boldness wrong and they fixed it in Qt5. Not sure if user > > Yes, it does. Under OS X. Not under Linux, where Qt4 gives me perfect light, > regular, semi-bold and bold. With Infinality Ultimate installed, of course ;) > >> experience was ever factored into the decision. > > Eh? There's a contradictio in terminis there. Font rendering quality is all > user experience, so either you fix it (and quality issues disappear) or you > break it completely (and quality disappears) ... > >> >> Search Google for "Qt5 font rendering", you will find that lots of other >> people have already ran into this. > > With Digia trying to convince them that they're wrong and just have to live > with fugly fonts as X11's first attempts at using TrueType fonts (i..e way > worse that handcrafted bitmap fonts)?
I didn't really look into this, but "something" seems to be fixed in the font rendering department for Qt 5.4.0: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-27106 _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
