On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:49, Bryce Harrington wrote:
It also has functions for getting outlines of fonts, which I don't totally grok yet, but it looks like there are similar routines in Pango. I can't tell if these would be as straightforward to switch over, since different kinds of structs are involved, so this may be the hard portion of the project.
Last I looked, pango's API gave you enough information to go to the underlying backend API (e.g. freetype or Win32) and get the outlines from that (e.g. using fonts and glyph indices from a PangoLayout). I could be wrong but I don't believe it has its own outline API.
Ah, okay... Sounds like this may take further research. I suppose it's not vital that it get done for 0.39, but it'd definitely need to be figured out before we switch over to Pango.
Bryce