On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:14, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > >We're dropping support for this code and for core X fonts > >in the next release of Pango, > > In favour of what? (FreeType on client side?)
Yes, using the Xft and fontconfig libraries. (http://www.fontconfig.org) If you have the RENDER extension (XFree86 from the last several years, recent Sun X server), it takes advantage of that to do efficient compositing of antialiased glyphs on the server side Using legacy X servers, it renders using standard X primitives either antialiased or not, and the performance is quite usable. The advantages are pretty huge: - Real unicode charmaps, instead of legacy encoding schemes. - Access to all the font tables, so you can do complex-text layout using OpenType - No need to pull huge metrics and charmaps tables over the X connection Etc. Regards, Owen
