On Jun 7, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> Hi, Tudor.
> 
> Yes, i did not implemented support for Strike fonts.
> Because strike fonts are not scalable, and because no way they can be
> correctly rendered by Athens:
> fonts holding a pre-rendered glyph with subpixel accuracy... which
> working well as long
> as you don't rotate/scale the bitmap.. and if you do, then output is
> even worse than gray-scale)
> So it is useless, and that's why i didn't added support for them in a
> first place.
> But if you need it, i can add it. It should be easy to do. Tell me if
> you need it.

igor if this is simple may be this would be good so that people can get started
and put more pressure on you.

> 
> I am currently working on bundling cairo library with VM
> i thought it will take less time, but ... this stuff is terrible to
> compose & build unless you are on linux.
> I should finish Mac build in a few days (actually i always think that
> it will be this day, but then yet another idiosyncrasy prevents me
> from finishing it :)
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
> 


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