Hi Alan, Nice explanation!
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > The view of the world from the X side (which includes FreeType2 & Xft2, > but not the rest, so I may be wrong about the details of the other bits): > > [snip] > > I'm not sure if cairo calls pango or goes direct to Xft2. > The result of "ldd /usr/lib/libcairo.so" shows that cairo links to freetype and fontconfig directly. And when I tried to build Firefox 3.0 on Solaris 10, cairo doesn't depend on pango as I can see. So I guess that cairo will bypass both pango and Xft2. Thanks, -Alfred
