[Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Here is a screenshot (attached) of the same text rendered with a native 
Cocoa application (top) and my Qt application (bottom), both using the 
Helvetica font at 16pt.  Notice the wrong spaces between character in 
the Qt app, for example in the words "lost", "permeated", and many 
others.  In the native app, the characters are evenly spaced, while in 
Qt they are not.

On 04/14/2010 01:10 AM, nobodyhere wrote:
> The screen shots are xcode, text wrangler, qt's sdi example.
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> Are you saying that (xcode and text wrangler) font is correct, while (qt's sdi example) is somehow incorrect?
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> From: "nobodyhere"<pem.accounts.spam at gmail.com>
> To: "Jason H"<scorp1us at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Nikos Chantziaras"<realnc at arcor.de>, qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:05:13 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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> I'm not sure what you mean?  I don't use email lists enough to know if they usually block attachments, so I'll try screen shots in the next email.
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> To: "Nikos Chantziaras"<realnc at arcor.de>, qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:50:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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> Also, when printing letters run together. While this is a problem for rn (r n looks like m, in Arial) Qt will do it with 's' and 'e' in very inconsistent manner. Sometimes 's' and 'e' touch, sometimes they don't and that is true for the letter next to them as well. Sometimes "se" bleeds, and sometimes it doesn't. it makes it look really sloppy.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Nikos Chantziaras<realnc at arcor.de>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 2:40:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7
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> On 04/13/2010 08:45 AM, nobodyhere wrote:
>> Okay, so I actually tried out two Qt Creator sample projects on Mac OS X.  I don't know what you mean about this alleged font rendering problem...  The font looks correct to me.
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> Don't you see broken kerning?  For example, when displaying the string
> "Yo", the "o" should be under the "Y", but it isn't.  In text oriented
> apps (where the focus is on actually reading text), this makes the
> application look lame.
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