Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Any plans for Freetype3? It's been 12 years. Is it time yet for a spring cleaning? Since I'm very bad at API design, I won't start such a project, but you are very welcome to discuss potential improvements, and it's very cheap to start a new branch in the git repository. Can we ask FreeType users what do they want to have and have simplified in API? What do they not need too? By users I mostly mean: - Cairo and Pango (Behdad ?) - Qt - fontconfig - ghostscript (Ken Sharp ?) ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules
At 10:26 30/08/2012 -0400, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: Can we ask FreeType users what do they want to have and have simplified in API? What do they not need too? By users I mostly mean: - Cairo and Pango (Behdad ?) - Qt - fontconfig - ghostscript (Ken Sharp ?) Should be Chris Liddell for Ghostscript now, though (obviously) I'm still lurking and still interested :-) Ken ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov apodt...@gmail.com wrote: By users I mostly mean: - Cairo and Pango (Behdad ?) - Qt - fontconfig Since there are a discussion to support the Composite Font Representation in fontconfig, I'd like to see some APIs that fontconfig let FreeType know what real fonts they may requires or what's the better font if missing because CFR doesn't alllow to have the file path for an real font but PostScript font naming. This would gives us an opportunity to open CFR with FreeType directly and less changes in applications to support it. TIA, -- Akira TAGOH ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules
Indeed, I think FreeType3 should have some distinction of APIs between the APIs bound to real single font file, and APIs not bound to. Maybe I should investigate the existing software and make a list of referred APIs and their popularity. Regards, mpsuzuki Akira TAGOH wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov apodt...@gmail.com wrote: By users I mostly mean: - Cairo and Pango (Behdad ?) - Qt - fontconfig Since there are a discussion to support the Composite Font Representation in fontconfig, I'd like to see some APIs that fontconfig let FreeType know what real fonts they may requires or what's the better font if missing because CFR doesn't alllow to have the file path for an real font but PostScript font naming. This would gives us an opportunity to open CFR with FreeType directly and less changes in applications to support it. TIA, ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules
I think FreeType3 should have some distinction of APIs between the APIs bound to real single font file, and APIs not bound to. Maybe I should investigate the existing software and make a list of referred APIs and their popularity. Please do so! Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
