At the risk of starting another silly thread, which I have done quite frequently lately, I ask <flame proof clothes ON>
It seems to me that every platform except Win32 is using GTK. If this is true, wouldn't we be better off requiring GTK and unifying a lot more code? <flame proof clothes OFF - whoops not yet, that last flame singed me!> Matti At 10:50 16/10/01 +1000, you wrote: >HI Leonard, > I've looked through this code and it will be a real pain to >move to XP. The way we deal with fonts in unix is a real mess. To put PS >generation into XP with the current codebase would require moving that >mess to XP. In addition there lots of embedded gdk font pointers inside >member variables that are critical to doing correct layout for unix. > >I think that when we move to GTK 2.0 which has a much nicer font interface >and uniform UTF-8 glyph passing, we should take the time to redo how we do >fonts in unix. With that it should be pretty easy to get PS generation >into XP too.
