Add font related changes in 4.8 into changes

Reviewed-by: Eskil

Change-Id: I2371fab17201ffd157753d36bc7e2e0c59cc2376
Reviewed-on: http://codereview.qt.nokia.com/1265
Reviewed-by: Qt Sanity Bot <qt_sanity_bot@ovi.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Jiang <jiang.jiang@nokia.com>
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Jiang Jiang 2011-07-04 15:27:13 +02:00 committed by Qt by Nokia
parent c82af87b53
commit ab5ff2965c

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@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ QtGui
- Deprecate qGenericMatrixFromMatrix4x4 and qGenericMatrixToMatrix4x4
- QListView diverses optimisations [QTBUG-11438]
- QTreeWidget/QListWidget: use localeAwareCompare for string comparisons [QTBUG-10839]
- PNG image I/O: Much improved support for text annotations, including iTXt fields.
- QRawFont and QGlyphRun are introduced for low-level text rendering. [QTBUG-18252]
- QFont: hintingPreference() is introduced to control hinting in font rendering and
subpixel positioning of glyphs for Windows, Mac OS X and X11/raster. [QTBUG-10615]
- Subpixel positioned text layout is supported in raster and OpenGL paint engines.
- QFont: styleName() is added to allow selecting fonts with irregular style names
like UltraLight. [QTBUG-19366]
- Visual text cursor movement behavior is added to QTextEdit and QLineEdit controls,
which can be used as an optional mode for bi-directional text editing. [QTBUG-13859]
QtNetwork
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@ -103,15 +112,22 @@ QtScript
Qt for Linux/X11
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- Now takes font hinting settings from GConf by default if running in
GNOME desktop.
- Various fixes to FontConfig font matching code to make it consistent
with other X11 programs. [QTBUG-2148, QTBUG-19947, QTBUG-14269]
Qt for Windows
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- DirectWrite experimental text shaping engine is added with subpixel
positioning support. [QTBUG-12678]
Qt for Mac OS X
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- raster graphics system is now made as the default paint engine for
Mac OS X. [QTBUG-12615]
- HarfBuzz can now be used as an optional text layout engine on Mac OS X.
[QTBUG-17728]
Qt for Embedded Linux
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