Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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.
That is what I thought as well.
