On 11/8/05, Richard Hughes <cyreve@...400...> wrote:
I have a patch in my local tree to switch from using the pango-ft2 backend to pango-win32 which should fix a large number of win32 bugs (1329863,1323437,1296310,1287763,1309726,1226656,1188530,1173133 and 1097049, I think. The same problem keeps getting reported in different ways because there are lots of places which use text). It's medium-sized (4 files) and cannot be rated as safe.
That sounds impressive, but raises a few questions:
- how well maintained is the win32 backend? Better or worse than ft2?
- I vaguely remember that long ago, during sodipodi times or right after the fork, we have switched back from some win32 font code - was it the reverse of what you are planning to do now, or something different? Can anyone with a memory longer than mine throw some light?
- how much additional maintenance will be required to support the win32 backend in inkscape?
Overall, so far I'm rather in favor of doing this for 0.44.
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