Re: font renderers in gdk

[Jim Pick <jim jimpick com>]

Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu> writes:

> X's font handling is quite primitive, and if we want to start
> adding rendering on the client side, we should provide something
> better. Something things to look at:
> 
> The two available free engines
>   - t1lib    
>   - FreeType

Netscape 4.0 can do anti-aliased fonts dynamically loaded over the
'net via "Bitstream TrueDoc" - I dunno, but it's probably state of
the art.  MS IE does something similar.

Cheers,

 - Jim

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