Hi Rajugopal, I don't know much about the Android compilation myself. Excluding ICU is fine if you include hb-ucdn instead. I'm CC'ing the HarfBuzz list, hopefully someone can help you.
behdad On 13-01-19 03:12 AM, R Gubbi wrote: > Dear Behdad, > We are working on Kannada (an Indic) font rendering for a rural education > project and of course, using Harfbuzz. This project started from using > Indic-text-renderer at http://code.google.com/p/indic-text-renderer/ . Since > there was no Harfbuzz or FT code there in that project, the following was > done. > > 1. Downloaded FT code from > https://github.com/android/platform_external_freetype and built it. no errorrs > reported > 2. HarfBuzz was downloaded from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/ and > built. No errors reported while building src, but fails building options.cc in > util. _HowToBuild.txt _at > http://code.google.com/p/indic-text-renderer/suggests ignoring these errors. > 3. However ndk-build fails. So, used the attached Android.mk which adds > (a) src/hb-ft.cc to LOCAL_SRC_FILES and also (b) removed hb_icu.c which > looked for icu library. - NOT sure if (b) was a good move > While this compiled and produced a .SO file, the fonts rendered on the > tablet (Android 4.0.3) is very fuzzy as if the fonts are very aliased. I am > not able to send the screen shot as the screen shot is not coming out on this > tablet. But from my experience in video processing, I can tell you that the > fonts are all in dots and there is atleast one ghost image of the font making > the whole thing very fuzzy. > > If you have build instructions some where, please let me know. Secondly, is > ignoring hb_icu.c in Android.mk a bad idea? finally, if you have some code for > using Harfbuzzon android for Persian or Arabic or Indic, I appreciate it if we > could use that? > > Your early response is much appreciated. > > Thanks and Regards > > Dr. Rajugopal Gubbi > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
