On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:21 +0900, James Kilfiger wrote:

What is the current level of support for OpenType fonts with postscript-like outlines? It seems to be not at all; my font works well in Scribus (1.32, Win32) and other windows applications, but isn't available in Inkscape (recent svn build). Generally what handles fonts now? freetype, Windows, pango or or or own code?

James

What "font" are you talking about? Is this a font you created?

If this is a font you created, could you provide us a version of it for testing plz?

Jon

What is the current level of support for OpenType fonts with postscript-like outlines? It seems to be not at all; my font works well in Scribus (1.32, Win32) and other windows applications, but isn't available in Inkscape (recent svn build). Generally what handles fonts now? freetype, Windows, pango or or or own code?

The current 0.43 release uses FreeType, however all builds since very shortly after then have used Pango-win32 which is essentially a wrapper around the Windows GDI functions for fonts (plus all Pango's internationalisation magic, of course).

There could be problems with GetGlyphOutline(GGO_NATIVE) which I've never tested with PostScript outlines. If you could send me the font in question I can take a look. It would also be interesting to know if 0.43 works.

Richard.