> Is FreeType available on all our current platforms and > all platforms that might be targeted in the future - > I'm thinking palmtops. Maybe worth a thought. Its strictly ANSI C compliant and also it can even be run from ROM, so it should be as portable as it gets.
> Also I'm wondering if this decision should be taken > seperately from deciding whether we should use Pango > at some point. Will that be a second change or should > we look into the effects of both before redesigning > a new API/architecture etc? I have not looked at Pango for a while again, but I fear that at the moment it may not be mature enough for our needs. The migration to FreeType would not be very complex; basically we would need to implement just a few xp methods in the graphics class that would replace pretty much identical methods currently implemented in the xp code, and probably just a single new method in the platform specific graphic classes (my estimate is that we are looking at couple of weeks of work at most). The layout engine would remain pretty much untouched, so that we would be no nearer and no fruther away from using Pango than we are now. Tomas
