From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 23:51:36 EDT
--- Blue Lizard <webmaster@dofty.zzn.com> wrote: > On
Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:46, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > It contains a lot of what we need but not
> everything we need. Nor is it
> > cross platform.
>
> This is an issue I have been thinking about a lot.
> The more abiword is
> integrated into gnome/pango (or for that matter any
> other platform
> specific thing) the more features get developed on
> that, and left out or
> made different on other platforms. Like, if we use
> pango for kerning,
> what does win32 do? qnx? solaris/cde users that
> dont want no stinking
> gnome build?
Win32 would use Pango, Uniscribe, or TrueType for
kerning.
QNX would use Pango or FreeType.
Solaris would use Pango or FreeType, TrueType if it's
available on Solaris.
Pango is not part of Gnome.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Tomas- what exactly can freetype do for us in this
> area?
>
> Regards.
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