Re: using FreeType post 1.0

From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 19:22:33 GMT

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    On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:24, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

    >
    > It seems to me that the benefits of using FreeType far outweight
    > any drawbacks. If we can agree on this, then migrating to FreeType
    > should be one of the first things to do after the 1.0 release.

    I agree with this 110%. The only additional issue I think we should
    think about is whether we want to turn over much of our text layout to
    the excellent pango library, since that would give us all the benefits
    of freetype, with lots of additional benefits in i18n and rendering.

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