[Gnome-print] Re: GNOME font library RFC

[Nathan Hurst <njh hawthorn csse monash edu au>]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

> - A way to get bezier outlines and exact metrics of glyphs
Freetype

> - A way to get integer-aligned shapes and integer metrics of glyphs
Freetype

> - Bunch of methods to render to actual destinations
Freetype

> Now - how you think, would be best to implement abstract font description,
> shared between 2 slightly different subsystems? Should pango know about
> different font formats? If so, then it should implement outline fetching
> and rendering itself - and gnome-font should be only server
> implementation.

Freetype :-)

hope that helps <grin>

njh