On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > To be honest, I have no idea how many of those things can be done > > by freetype2, but I highly doubt its OTF support will be sufficient. > > As a matter of fact, while FreeType 1 came with a few utilities > demonstrating basic OpenType capabilities, FreeType 2 dropped them > entirely, and it seems, from browsing the documentation, that there > there is not even an OpenType-specific API in the latter (whereas there > is one for BDF, PCF, PFR fonts ...) I've always wondered about this > fact, but couldn't find any reason for it. > > If Werner Lemberg reads the list, maybe he can enlighten us.
AFAIK, they felt that OpenType layout should be handled by a higher level layer, that happen to be HarfBuzz (which is based on FreeType1 OT code). http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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