Re: GNOME libraries 2.xx road map

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ariman ee>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>       These include the Bezier Path canvas item, Raph Levien's Type1
>       font loading code, HackText canvas item.  The canvas items can
>       go directly into the <filename>libgnomeui</filename> library.
>       While the Type1 font loading is perhaps useful without any
>       connection to the user interface, so it might go into its own
>       module, perhaps <filename>libtype1</filename> or even a more
>       generic <filename>libgnomefont</filename> which would abstract
>       font loading and handling for us. 

Doesn't it make sense to integrate these things with X font server?

I.e. modular font server, which can
- export X rasterized fonts
- export outlines for canvas drawing etc.
- export Type1 fonts to send to PS printer (in ps header)
- export Type1 fonts for ghostscript
- export something for embedding in documents (as MS do)
...

Lauris