Questions about the font shaping tender

[Khaled Hosny]

I’m just trying to understand what is this about for now.

Regards,
Khaled

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:18:28AM +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> This does seem a bit odd… unless we want to make AFM parsing cross-platform?
> 
> The only thing that I’m aware implements AFM parsing is
> PrintFontManager, which is only used by Unix-based platforms. 
> 
> Could we get some clarification around this?
> 
> Oh, and also - Khaled, once this is clarified why don’t you go for the
> tender? I can’t think of anyone I’d more highly recommend than
> yourself, and I’m reasonably certain you have some good ideas around
> how to fix the SalLayout mess... certainly you have the technical
> expertise and experience to tackle this. 
> 
> Just a suggestion :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> > On 1 Feb 2016, at 9:35 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I just came across this tender [1] and it is not quite clear to me what
> > is it about. Am I right in thinking this is about having a shared
> > cross-platform implementation of VCL text layout API (the dreaded
> > SalLayout et all)? If so I don’t understand what AFM stuff is doing here
> > since we don’t use any of this AFM stuff during text layout as far as I
> > can know and I don’t see how it can even be reused for such a task.
> > 
> > 1. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2015/12/16/tender-for-cross-platform-fontshaping-stubs-for-layout-tests-201512-05/
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Khaled
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