> Lemme try to answer some of your questions from my very limited > knowledge until Behdad responds.
Thanks! I think my main problem is that I've never used Cairo. Otherwise, a lot of concepts would be immediately clear to me, I believe. >> For example, what's the difference >> between >> >> hb_ft_font_create >> hb_ft_face_create > > A hb_ft_face is internal to hb_ft_font and created automatically. It > is needed by the font object to query font metrics and read sfnt > tables. I don't know why you would create one yourself. Actually, as the sample code from my previous e-mail shows, I really need only hb_ft_face_create :-) > hb_font_create and hb_face_create create "abstract" objects. If you > create them like this, you need to implement and assign a bunch of > callbacks to them to make them work. [...] Yeah, I've realized this meanwhile. Fortunately, I only need to work with FreeType, so I don't need such hassles. > Check this out: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2009-August/000359.html Thanks! I've tried to find this e-mail, but somehow I failed. Werner _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
