Maximal font-size khtml can display?

Hello,

while I was building some kind of "status displaying
website" for a 
large screen, I came around some kind f limitation (I think)
of khtml.

Is seems it can not show any fonts bigger than ~ 260px.

Take a look at the attached testcase, and try to increase
the font-size 
above 260px. Here, on 3.5.6/feisty, the fontsize does not
increase 
anymore. Opera and Firefox seem not to have this limitation,
they can 
show even font-sizes of 1000px.

Is this a bug or a feature?

regards,
yves

On Friday 18 May 2007, Yves Glodt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while I was building some kind of "status
displaying website" for a
> large screen, I came around some kind f limitation (I
think) of
> khtml.
>
> Is seems it can not show any fonts bigger than ~
260px.

btw, I just built webkit-qt from svn, and it does not have
this 
limitation in font-size.

> Take a look at the attached testcase, and try to
increase the
> font-size above 260px. Here, on 3.5.6/feisty, the
fontsize does not
> increase anymore. Opera and Firefox seem not to have
this limitation,
> they can show even font-sizes of 1000px.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> regards,
> yves



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Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 schrieb Yves Glodt:
> On Friday 18 May 2007, Yves Glodt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > while I was building some kind of "status
displaying website" for a
> > large screen, I came around some kind f limitation
(I think) of
> > khtml.
> >
> > Is seems it can not show any fonts bigger than ~
260px.
>
> btw, I just built webkit-qt from svn, and it does not
have this
> limitation in font-size.
>
> > Take a look at the attached testcase, and try to
increase the
> > font-size above 260px. Here, on 3.5.6/feisty, the
fontsize does not
> > increase anymore. Opera and Firefox seem not to
have this limitation,
> > they can show even font-sizes of 1000px.
> >
> > Is this a bug or a feature?

"Feature". This seems to be a remnant from the
times when X11 did the font 
handling which couldn't cope with glyphs larger than 255px
IIRC. With 
freetype, this feature should be obsoleted eventually.

mfg
	Leo

> "Feature". This seems to be a remnant from
the times when X11 did the font
> handling which couldn't cope with glyphs larger than
255px IIRC. With
> freetype, this feature should be obsoleted eventually.


Indeed:
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r160429 | mueller | 2002-06-11 19:27:24 -0400 (Tue, 11 Jun
2002) | 2 lines

limit the font sizes to 0..255px to avoid crashing X on some
webpages