> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 05:31:33 +0200 > From: Khaled Hosny <dr.khaled.ho...@gmail.com> > Cc: Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org>, harfbuzz@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > HarfBuzz handles everything it understands. It was designed, in fact, > > > such that when combined with > > > FreeType or other external font funcs implementation, it even "handles" > > > font formats it does not understand. > > > Eg. HarfBuzz doesn't understand BDF, PCF, etc, but if you use hb-ft, you > > > can use hb-ft for everything, and > > > BDF, PCF etc also magically work because HarfBuzz defers to FreeType for > > > glyph access, and simply > > > "passes through" for the rest. It was designed such that you can keep > > > one shaping code path. > > > > We don't currently use hb-ft on Windows. But thanks, I think I > > understand. > > You can achieve the same by implementing font functions for the font > formats HarfBuzz does not directly support, using e.g. GDI API to access > glyph info in these fonts (see hb_font_funcs_set_* functions).
Thanks, I will look into this, time permitting. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
