[Scribus] strange text display

[Peter Linnell]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 20:42, Wesley T Allen wrote:
> On Saturday 27 September 2003 8:10 pm, Peter Linnell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:53, Peter Lutek wrote:
> > > in scribus v1.0.1 on redhat 9, i'm seeing a strange text display
> > > characteristic: text looks normal when displayed at default zoom
> > > setting, but at anything above 100% the text becomes squished together
> > > and unreadable. it's as if the font size is too big for the spacing
> > > between letters. it's only on the display (and print preview), and only
> > > when zoomed. everything prints fine.
> > >
> > > anyone else seeing this problem, or have any clues about solving it?
> > >
> > > thanks!
> >
> > Get 1.1.0. It has a brand new rendering engine which is much faster and
> > the text rendering is far better:
> 
> How stable is 1.1.0?  Will fonts be anti-aliased at zooms > 100%?
> 
> Wes
> 
> >
> > http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/
> >
> > has a screen cap of 1.1.0 taken from RH 9.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter

Very stable. Font and vector objects are anti-aliased at all zoom levels
up to 3200% 

I think the new rendering engine is the single best improvement to
Scribus since its launch and I have been using Scribus since 0.3.7

Regards,
Peter