[cairo-commit] 3 commits - doc/public NEWS src/cairo.h
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at kemper.freedesktop.org
Fri Aug 8 14:13:33 PDT 2008
NEWS | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
doc/public/tmpl/cairo-user-fonts.sgml | 7 +++-
src/cairo.h | 3 +
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
New commits:
commit e9933ba28cad1fc2219f145f5da47750b19acc7b
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
Date: Fri Aug 8 17:12:07 2008 -0400
[NEWS] Add some notes about recent happenings
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9aa263c..3ef6711 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,55 @@
+- User fonts: This is new API allowing the user of cairo API to provide
+ drawings for glyphs in a font. This is most useful in implementing
+ fonts in non-standard formats, like SVG fonts and Flash fonts, but can
+ also be used by games and other application to draw "funky" fonts.
+ See test/user-font.c and test/user-font-proxy.c for usage examples.
+
+ Note that user font API changed a bit just before this release.
+
+- show_text_glyphs: This is new API allowing the caller of cairo to mark
+ text glyphs with their original text. The PDF backend implements this
+ new API and latest Pango master uses it. The result is (when bugs are
+ fixed) that complex text can be copied out of pangocairo's PDF output
+ correctly and reliably. There are bugs to fix though. A few poppler
+ bugs, and some more in cairo and pango.
+
+ To test show_text_glyph, just grab pango master & this cairo snapshot and
+ print text in gedit. Open in acroread or evince, select all, copy, paste
+ in gedit and compare. The Arabic text with diacritic marks is particularly
+ showing bad. Try with pango/pango-view/HELLO.txt if you are brave
+ enough. The Indic text is showing improvements, but is still coming out
+ buggy.
+
+- text_to_glyphs API: This is mostly useful in combination with user-fonts.
+
+The result of the above three changes combined is that when you render text
+using cairo_show_text() and a user font, the resulting PDF file is perfectly
+text extractable. Something one could not do with cairo before.
+
+- Toy font face constructor and getters: Mostly for API completion, but
+ also useful for higher level (like Pango) to hook into what the user
+ has set using cairo_select_font_face(), making that toy API a bit more
+ useful.
+
+- LCD subpixel filtering using FreeType, with different filters. Original
+ patch by David Turner.
+
+
+Known issues:
+
+- Type3 fonts generated by cairo's PDF backend may show up in poppler/Evince
+ in a different color than expected. This is fixed in poppler master branch.
+ This mostly affects cairo user fonts. The test case test/user-font.c
+ demonstrates this.
+
+- User fonts using other fonts in their rendering are currently embedded in
+ PDF as fallback bitmap glyphs. This will be (hopefully) fixed before 1.8.
+ The test case test/user-font-proxy.c demonstrates this.
+
+- The win32 font backend does not work in this version. This will be fixed
+ as soon as possible.
+
+
Release 1.6.4 (2008-04-11 Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is wildly embarrassed to announce the 1.6.4
commit 8f6e52b0681384a5188277641d700f0e80e2c202
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
Date: Fri Aug 8 17:10:35 2008 -0400
[doc] Add short user-font section docs
diff --git a/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-user-fonts.sgml b/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-user-fonts.sgml
index b64bf25..c1cf8c4 100644
--- a/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-user-fonts.sgml
+++ b/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-user-fonts.sgml
@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
User Fonts
<!-- ##### SECTION Short_Description ##### -->
-
+Font support with font data provided by the user
<!-- ##### SECTION Long_Description ##### -->
<para>
+The user-font feature allows the cairo user to provide drawings for glyphs
+in a font. This is most useful in implementing fonts in non-standard
+formats, like SVG fonts and Flash fonts, but can also be used by games and
+other application to draw "funky" fonts.
+<!-- Include samples here -->
</para>
<!-- ##### SECTION See_Also ##### -->
commit 5227897b17d04fc6b8604d84847f85a1deb0c1f2
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
Date: Fri Aug 8 17:06:21 2008 -0400
Add note about zero-glyph clusters
diff --git a/src/cairo.h b/src/cairo.h
index 8b50c04..52a34e9 100644
--- a/src/cairo.h
+++ b/src/cairo.h
@@ -847,6 +847,9 @@ cairo_glyph_free (cairo_glyph_t *glyphs);
*
* For a cluster to be valid, both @num_bytes and @num_glyphs should
* be non-negative, and at least one should be non-zero.
+ * Note that clusters with zero glyphs are not as well supported as
+ * normal clusters. For example, PDF rendering applications typically
+ * ignore those clusters when PDF text is being selected.
*
* See cairo_show_text_glyphs() for how clusters are used in advanced
* text operations.
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