Re: mmap and Windows

2020-07-24 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:25 PM Vincent Torri wrote: > hello > > On Windows, there is no mmap, but there is shared memory support, with > CreateFileMapping and MapViewOfFile. > > If shared mem really improved loading of files on Unix, would you > consider adding shared mem support on Windows too

Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype

2018-03-18 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 3/18/2018 12:05 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Higher level would make use of ranges/language mapping for fallback. >> DirectWrite fallback is modeled very close if not identical to how >> this data is defined in .compositefont xml format. When using >> DirectWrite layout API, application can

Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype

2018-03-18 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 3/18/2018 11:17 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Adding support to FreeType would immediately enable *all* applications > to handle them without changes. What should a higher level do in your > opinion? Higher level would make use of ranges/language mapping for fallback. DirectWrite fallback is

Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype

2018-03-18 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 3/18/2018 10:25 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> The difficulty is not adding support for the VF format itself but >>> to find a good API that is generic enough for other purposes, too. >>> I'm thinking of handling files like Microsoft's >>> `GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'. Apple and Android

Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype

2018-03-18 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 3/18/2018 6:19 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The difficulty is not adding support for the VF format itself but to > find a good API that is generic enough for other purposes, too. I'm > thinking of handling files like Microsoft's > `GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'. Apple and Android provide

Re: [ft-devel] Does FreeType have internal cache mechanism?

2017-05-17 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 18.05.2017 5:59, Chester Hsieh wrote: > Hi, I'm Chester. > > I just start to use FreeType engine, and I'm interested in how it works > with cache. > > Since it would be awesome if the FreeType has a internal cache mechanism so > that once we query a character which had already been queried

Re: [ft-devel] Something in 2.6.4 broke my windows (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 138, Issue 9)

2016-07-07 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 07.07.2016 19:56, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > I don't seem to have the very beginning of this thread so it is a bit > difficult to see what's going on, anyway, there are > a few things I like to respond to... > > > On Thu, 7/7/16,

Re: [ft-devel] Builtin way to trace freetype API calls?

2016-06-06 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 06.06.2016 21:08, Qian Hong wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am working on Wine support for a closed source Win32 application. > This Win32 application bundle a freetype library to process fonts: > > https://www.reasoncoresecurity.com/freetype.dll-0aa9e1bd9e67aa9852df16152a83fcb1e7886d48.aspx > > In

Re: [ft-devel] State of TrueType interpreter v38 and up?

2015-12-03 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 03.12.2015 21:38, Werner LEMBERG wrote: There is a misunderstanding, see above. `Native' ClearType doesn't do y-only hinting! It's simply that advance width modifications are ignored in Windows at a later stage, namely in the rasterizer. I'm confused. Is this "native ClearType" actually

Re: [ft-devel] rendering mode of Firefox on Windows 10

2015-11-05 Thread Nikolay Sivov
On 05.11.2015 23:40, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families indeed contained something by default, I tried to reset to empty string, no change. Also if it really applies to specific family my guess would be that RasterInfo font won't be