The fonts addition is excellent! Not having StrikeFont support is less good news, but I understand your position.
The only reason I proposed having StrikeFont support was to ease the transition to Athens until the VMs will be properly bundled with Cairo. This will likely take a while, but the transition could start now. Is there another possibility of using a font that can be supported with Athens rendered on top of Balloon. Cheers, Doru On 3 Sep 2012, at 04:21, Igor Stasenko wrote: > ah, yes.. i forgot to say: > - no strike fonts for Athens will be supported ever. > > It is simply unproductive to waste time on that. They will never work > correctly, because the format how they stored in image are > premultiplied subpixel 3*32-bit bitmaps. > > And sure thing, Cairo don't have our highly-special blit mode to > render them correctly (not saying that they'll work only for 1:1 pixel > grid match, and only for LCD displays, and if you offset them even by > a fraction of pixel or rotate/scale, i doubt you will be able to read > anything). > > You can draw bitmaps (forms) using Athens.. but they should be a > normal RGBA 32-bit ones. > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. > -- www.tudorgirba.com "No matter how many recipes we know, we still value a chef."
