https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104242
--- Comment #20 from Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #14)
> I like the idea of Skia integration personally, but as you say it needs
> work. I'd like to kill this guy though:
>
> > The other issue is that, unlike text layout, people are very sensitive
> > to font rendering and people on Windows will most likely scream very loudly
> > if LibreOffice started rendering text differently than the system
>
> FWIW - we already did; we've done this for all releases with GL as default -
> which has not been using ClearType - and no screaming ;-) Also - Microsoft
> Office itself does not use the platform font rendering (except for (just
> parts) of its toolbar) - the body / document text is rendering grey-scale
> with no hinting - I -assume- to improve cross-platform document rendering ;-)
Interesting, didn’t realize that. Sure if we can pull such a change without
major pushback, it would widen our options.
Lets see if we can get things moving in the short term with DirectWrite in the
meantime.
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