we don't know if they use FreeType to render glyphs. maybe they've taken a
few lines of source code to parse certain tables, or whatnot :-)
on the other hand, I confirm you that FreeType is used as the font engine in
Android.

cheers

- David

2008/9/13 Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >> If you scroll down far enough in the Settings > General > About >
> >> Legal section on an iPhone, you'll see a reference to the FreeType
> >> license.  In my opinion, everyone who has contributed to FreeType
> >> should be very proud of the excellent work they've done.
> >
> > We are :-) However, it's really surprising that Apple, the mother of
> > TrueType, so to say, uses a different implementation.
>
> Indeed.  I wonder why they don't use their own renderer.  Or maybe their
> renderer uses FreeType on OS X too?!  Or maybe it's just to support other
> font
> formats?  Bitmap ones maybe?  Donno.
>
> behdad
>
> >     Werner
> >
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