Dear Khaled, do you think that extensive comparison of rendering of numerous documents with and without the new layout engine makes sense? If yes, I can run my tests in such a way to see if there are any differences. My test documents use latin script except for a few ones in Chinese. So, if you happen to have sume documents in Arabic I can add them to my test set. best Milos On 2016-10-17 21:30, Khaled Hosny wrote:
I believe that feature/commonsallayout (AKA unified text layout) is now feature complete with no known major bugs, and should be ready to be merged on master. I’ll try merge it tomorrow night and hope for the best, unless someone objects loudly. Currently the new layout is off by default and can be enabled at runtime by setting SAL_USE_COMMON_LAYOUT env variable. After merging with master, I’m going to wait a week or so for any potential build issues then swap the default. There are too main issues with the new code: - Type 1 fonts are not supported. They can be supported with some effort, but Type 1 fonts have been obsolete for more than 15 years and I’d like to use this opportunity to drop support for them and cleanup some of the ugly code we have. - We use a bit of DirectWrite to load fonts on Windows, so Windows XP is not supported as well. Again it can be fixed with some effort, but I don’t think anyone will miss XP. Ideally we should do a full switch to DirectWrite and modernise our Windows font rendering, but that is another story. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
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