[Qt-interest] freetype on Windows

[Nikos Chantziaras]

No, it's exactly the same.  The point is that Freetype can render text
better than Windows, which is why people want to use it.

On 08/03/2011 04:50 AM, suzuki toshiya wrote:
> Oh. The quality is less than Windows `native' applications?
> 
> Li Lirong wrote:
>> 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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