Font rasterizing support Re: RFC: Wine 1.0

[Douglas Ridgway]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, michael cardenas wrote:

> Also, we need more font support. Is there any kind of font rasterizer in
> wine? We implemented some code to read font data and curve data out of
> truetype fonts that we're willing to contribute, but since there's no
> rasterizer, it would be mostly useless.

My opinion is that the X server is the place for the font rasterizer. Wine
needs additional interfaces beyond what X provides, which means either
extending the X Font Protocol or using a custom font server.

I don't know how this interacts with printing, however.

doug.
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