Looks like that pango stuff would probably help what I was doing, too. I never got to worrying about rendering fonts, just representing them in the SVG file.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@...1866...> wrote:

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:54 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:

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What is needed to make inkscape render this? I suppose that I should provide the kerning info to cairo userfonts and then cairo-user-fonts would call my glyph-rendering functions providing me the proper x,y coordinates. But how do I enable this behaviour just for Super Sans font? I guess there must be a way of registering new fonts with pango. I just don't see exactly how these pieces fit together.

The font data can all be fed to cairo using the user-font support that I committed to master last week. So you have some code to write already. You need to provide the render_glyph(). If you don't have kerning, providing unicode_to_glyph() would be enough, but for kerning, you need to use the full text_to_glyphs() method.

The Pango bits to make pango use cairo user-fonts don't exist yet. This is the bug tracking that:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347237

While I want to fix that bug this cycle, I don't have a estimate for it yet, and it's not on my plate for the next few weeks...

Hope that helps.

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