On 9/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OpenType supports in freetype is early and I don't think it will work
> through our backend automagically. Not even by cairo backend if you
> wish. The backend and gui needs to deal
> with informations in opentype tables and they (freetype) didn't
> support every table yet.
> (we didn't support it at all, AFAIK) Our current text system still
> didn't follow some rules due
> to performance problems. But it is still very good (ie. Pango is not
> better) and can be improved.
> We need more engineer on text system.
>
> Note: I didn't check things for months so I'm probably be out-of-date,
> hopefully not too much.
>
Looking at the FreeType 2 features, there isn't anything saying that
OpenType support is lacking... they seem to be presenting it as a
first class citizen along with TrueType.
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#features
It does support some tables AFAIK. The problem is, you need a specific
implementation
to use what they provided. They give us glyph faces and a few tables,
that's all, and we
must try to use them since freetype isn't a text subsystem.
J.
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