2015-07-28 20:51 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák <[email protected]>: > So apparently Firefox uses Pango on top of Cairo to render fonts. Is that > something we can apply? > Because the results from pangocairo looks much better than what is > currently in Bloc. >
Can you show an example. with some info about: what platform cairo version the font > > Or maybe I should be looking into Athens-based solution? > What is Athens thens? I thought that it's vector canvas, but that's what > cairo is. Is athens just Smalltalk binding? Where is the line? > Yes, Athens is the API and cairo is the backend. All rendering happens through cairo (and freetype). > > Thanks, > Peter > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Peter Uhnák <[email protected]> wrote: > >> but I don't know if we will do this ever or if it is possible at all. >>>> >>> >> What do you mean not possible? That Bloc will have ugly jagged font >> without kerning? >> >> I mean whole Firefox (Gecko) is rendered on Cairo, so surely the issue >> can't be in Cairo. So maybe we just need to implement/wrap/bridge something >> somewhere? >> >> So if I want usable fonts I will need to start studying athens/cairo >> internals? >> >> Peter >> > >
