https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104242
--- Comment #13 from Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> ---
Switching to Freetype is an interesting idea, but IMHO unpractical. First we
don’t use Freetype directly to render text on Linux, we use Cairo, so switching
to Freetype without Cairo will require writing a good chunk of non-trivial
code. The other issue is that, unlike text layout, people are very sensitive to
font rendering and people on Windows will most likely scream very loudly if
LibreOffice started rendering text differently than the system (same on Mac),
and getting Freetype to emulate the Windows font rendering might not be even
possible.
We probably want to switch to a cross-platform graphics library in the future
and unify our graphics and text rendering like we did for text layout. Cairo is
a good candidate since we already have working Cairo integration on Linux, but
I hear that Cairo’s performance on Windows is not very optimal and its
development slowed down considerably in the last years. Skia is another
alternative, used by Chrome and Firefox, but we will need to write Skia
integration from scratch which is not a small project.
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