[cairo] User fonts

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 14:28 -0500, T Rowley wrote:
> I'm interesting the ability to specify user fonts for cairo, to help in 
> implementing SVG fonts for mozilla.  Looking through the cairo mailing 
> list archive, it seems that Kristian come up with an implementation in 
> April/May of this year, but inclusion on the mainline was stalled on API 
> decisions.  Is there anything I can do to help move this feature along?
> 
> My opinion on the API issue - a dictionary approach would be enough for 
> outline SVG fonts (<glyph> "d" attribute), but I think callbacks would 
> be needed for general child content of <glyph>.

Kristian and I have talked about it quite a lot.  We agreed on the
callback API.  One just needs to go back and update his patch to get the
discussion rolling again.


> -tor
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