At 7:13 PM +0100 4/25/02, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > >(5) Develop a new XP font manager (some, but not much platform
>> >code needed), no complexities here, all we need to is to be able to
>> >retrieve font names and associate them with their Pango descriptions
>> >(not unlike the Unix font manager), probably from a pregenerated text
>> >file.
>> Why doesn't FT fit the bill here - or is there something that
>> I am not understanding about what you mean by a "Font
>> Manager"?
>
>We need some internal mechanism for filling the font combo box
>with user readable names, and associating the font names in the
>combo box with a the descriptive data with the PangoFont objects;
>this should be straight forward.
Got it! And that also requires integrating with some
platform-centric code to get currently installed fonts. But you're
right, doesn't sound bad at all.
>It seems we would not need to directly interact with FreeType, the
>Pango low-level api makes it possible to take a string and get back
>a finished FT_Bitmap, which is better than I first thought, all we
>would need is for each platform to implement a function for drawing
>this bitmap on screen, everything else can be XP.
Perfect!
>PS output would
>be a bit more complicated, but at the same time, this would be an
>excellent oportunity to move it into the XP land.
Yes, since it would all sit on top of FT. And there are
already a couple of FT-based PS and PDF generators in development (or
even completed) that I've heard of that we should be able to lift
code from.
Leonard
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