Subject: Re: Using FreeType (was Re: Bidirectional support)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 23:29:22 CST
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 5:40 PM +0100 12/16/00, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> >Wouldn't it be easier to use something like the (XP) FreeType library <URL:
> >http://freetype.sourceforge.net/intro.html > in the first place? This also has
> >other advantages like:
>
> Yes, switching to FreeType as the core rendering engine of
> AbiWord would has a LOT of advantages - including support for more
> font types, better/nicer rendering (via anti-aliasing), a single (XP)
> set of code for measuring and rendering text, etc.
>
> However, as always, someone needs to step up to the plate ;).
>
I believe that GTK 2.0 will provide all these features in combination with
Xfree 4.1. This "someone" should also evaluate the benefits of gtk 2.0 :-)
The GTK 2.0 library may also enable vertical drawing of strings for CJK
locales.
Cheers
Martin
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