On 4 September 2012 06:44, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > well, you can use standard canvas to render anything into the surface.. but of course you'll have to keep a coordinate system transforms in sync.. right now it works, if you send #asForm to cairo surface, it returns a form which using same bits for bitmap, as cairo does, so drawing using balloon canvas is possible.
a different backends may not support that , of course, and sending #asForm message will just return a copy of bits currently rendered on surface. anyways, you can combine it with balloon canvas.. first render on surface, then send #asForm, and then you free to do anything with it , including drawing fonts, of course. > Cheers, > Doru > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
