Re: Dia Bugs

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Clemens Resanka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having serious problems with the freetype support in dia 0.90.
> Everything works fine without freetype, but then the graphics are
> unbelievably ugly.
> 
> 1) dia won't save freetype font attributes.
> any font is saved as regular, no matter if it was bold, italic or
> bold/italic.
> see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97564

This is fixed in CVS.

> 2) freetype fonts always have a white background.
> if you place black text on a gray box, it looks wrong.
> see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97565 (includes pic)

Yes, at that time I had found no way to do alpha compositing for the
freetype-rendered bitmap.  The newest CVS (from yesterday) has fixed that
problem, though it still has some severe bounding-box problems.

-Lars

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