[Qt-interest] freetype on Windows

[Li Lirong]

The reason we want to use freetype on Windows is because text drawing
through Qt on Windows is not very smooth.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 05:54 PM, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>> [...]
>> But, why do you want to use freetype on Win32 platform?
>
> I'm not the OP, but I would also like to use freetype everywhere.  I
> have some apps that are heavily text-based, and it would make sense to
> offer high quality text rendering.  The windows text rendering isn't
> very good (which is why Acrobat Reader for example offers its own
> rendering).  Having an option to use freetype would offer quality text
> rendering on all platforms (of course optional, since for most purposes
> apps should use the native font renderer.)
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