Re: autokerning (was [ft-devel] New FreeType proofing tool: ftdiff)

2007-04-03 Thread David Turner
My question again. Why is it better to pass lsb/rsb knowledge to higher level than to teach freetype to render a single word and provide an interface for that? There are several reasons not to do that in FreeType: - the font engine doesn't do caching, so performance is going to suck -

Re: autokerning (was [ft-devel] New FreeType proofing tool: ftdiff)

2007-04-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:32 +0200, David Turner wrote: Hi Behdad, Hi David, I'm not sure if I understand what these lsb/rsb stuff is. Is there anything here that cairo/pango should be doing that it's not already? I'll try to summarize the issue as succintly as I can.