Re: Opentype fonts and features

From: Tomas Frydrych <tf_at_o-hand.com>
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 09:53:58 CET

Hi,

Gerrit Sangel wrote:
> I’d like to ask to ask if there are any plans to support Opentype fonts and
> Opentype features (like ligatures) in Abiword?

We do this already, on Windows since the 2.4 branch and above and on
*nix from 2.5 and above. I should add that in general it is not up to
AbiWord as such to support any specific font technology, it's the
business of the OS text rendering subsystem (Uniscribe on Windows and
Pango on *nix).

Tomas
Received on Thu Jan 10 09:55:26 2008

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