On 13-08-20 12:52 PM, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:09 PM, mahavishnu
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hi,
>>         I am trying to use freetype and harfbuzz to get the bitmap 
>> information from
>> the harfbuzz buffer where the layout is been done(if i am correct).
> 
> Not quite, the harfbuzz buffer holds only information which glyphs to
> draw where.
> 
> Actual drawing is done by explicit calls to freetype with certain
> callbacks (spanners) set up.

You don't have to implement the spanner callback API, you can ask FreeType to
render glyph to bitmap directly.

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behdad
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