[cairo] Cairo + FreeType Binaries for WIndows?

[Gerdus van Zyl]

Ah, sadly that is outside my experience. I suggest you make a new posting to
the list with a subject similiar to "Pango problems with international fonts
on windows", and describe the problem like you did in your previous mail.

Another thing you can check is to make a GTK program and see if it renders
the international text, that would eliminate whether it's how cairo+pango is
compiled or being used.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:17 AM, <robertk54 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> >Is getting a list of installed fonts a requirement or are you just
> working with a fixed set of fonts? I am trying to understand >what's not
> working. Is some fonts not working but other as well? Font names that are
> not working would be useful.
>
> Yes, I think.  The final product needs to support any font a user wants to
> use.  I do not want to limit this to a predefined set that we include within
> our product.  We need to allow for users installing thier own fonts, perhaps
> fonts they develop themselves (within reasonable limititations).  I am
> assuming this means I need to support a user providing a font pattern which
> the product will search for, find and render onto the Cairo ARGB surface.
> If Cairo + Pango alone can handle this then this is great.
>
> My initial development used Cairo alone.  This was ok for a start but
> limited the types of fonts to those with 'standard' layouts (left to
> right).  My second step was to integrate with Pango to allow for use of
> 'non-standard' (Hebrew, Chinese, etc.) layouts.  I got to the point where
> Cairo + Pango worked with 'standard' fonts, but I could not get the
> 'non-standard' stuff working.  I asumed all I need do was implement the
> gravity attributes but all I could get was boxes instead of text with
> anything but the vertical selection.  Since I assumed I needed to add
> FontConfig and FreeType at some point I thought perhaps I was not using the
> correct font sets and that it was a good time to add these libraries.  Once
> I added FontConfig and FreeType I was able to determine all the available
> fonts and implemented a means to provide the font pattern to select a
> particular one.  It was at this point I determined that only some of the
> fonts would render as expected and the others would all seem to render using
> some default font.  I could supply more detail about which fonts rendered as
> expected and which did not.  At this point it was suggested that I needed
> Cairo + FreeType to allow the font pattern to be passed to Cairo properly.
> This is why I started my search for the binaries or build environment.
>
> Once I get the basics working I need to do some more advanced layouts.  My
> code can already animate the text (scroll and fade).  We need to do things
> similar to PowerPoint animations.  One example would be a wave pattern where
> letters are higher than others.  The high point will scroll down the text
> string at some rate.  I am hoping I can achieve this using Pango but this is
> not a big concern at this point.
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