Re: [cairo] Color fonts

From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
To: Uli Schlachter <psychon znc in>, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>, Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>, Parag Nemade <pnemade redhat com>, cairo <cairo cairographics org>, Gtk+ Developers <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [cairo] Color fonts
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:21:10 -0400

On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:02 +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote:

Hi,

On 28.06.2017 14:23, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

All of you have asked me about the status of color fonts in
cairo.  There's
some discussion here:


what was the solution to make this fit into cairo's drawing model?
Text
/ glyphs are used as a mask and a mask does not have colors.


There is no solution to that. The assumption in cairo's drawing model
about glyphs/fonts has simply been invalidated by reality.