From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 20:15:53 GMT
> Is FreeType available on all our current platforms and
> all platforms that might be targeted in the future -
> I'm thinking palmtops. Maybe worth a thought.
Its strictly ANSI C compliant and also it can even be run from
ROM, so it should be as portable as it gets.
> Also I'm wondering if this decision should be taken
> seperately from deciding whether we should use Pango
> at some point. Will that be a second change or should
> we look into the effects of both before redesigning
> a new API/architecture etc?
I have not looked at Pango for a while again, but I fear that at the
moment it may not be mature enough for our needs. The migration
to FreeType would not be very complex; basically we would need
to implement just a few xp methods in the graphics class that
would replace pretty much identical methods currently
implemented in the xp code, and probably just a single new
method in the platform specific graphic classes (my estimate is
that we are looking at couple of weeks of work at most). The layout
engine would remain pretty much untouched, so that we would be
no nearer and no fruther away from using Pango than we are now.
Tomas
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