Subject: Re: Using FreeType (was Re: Bidirectional support)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 05:46:36 CST
At 4:29 PM +1100 12/17/00, Martin Sevior wrote:
>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 :-)
I'm not the GTK expert around here, but I think that those
benefits are via Pango, and only effect (by default) places where
Pango is used (standard widgets, etc.) Since we do our own drawing,
we won't get it.
However, yes, a future version of XFree is going to use
FreeType. But, as always, this stuff ONLY helps us on Unix/GTK :(.
>The GTK 2.0 library may also enable vertical drawing of strings for CJK
>locales.
>
That I haven't heard about - either via Pango or XFree.
LDR
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