[OpenFontLibrary] wxFont

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 15:02 -0400, Fontfreedom at aol.com wrote:
> Anyone know how good wxFont is at Font Rendering (esp. international,
> unicode, etc)

It doesn't do its own rendering, as far as I know, but uses
freetype (and possibly pango and/or harfbuzz). Ask Google :)

A wxFont object is not actually a font, but metadata about
a font - e.g. metrics, font-name, etc.

On non-Free platforms, wx probably uses the native font
sub-system provided by the OS (e.g. GDI on Microsoft Windows);
if it uses Freetype on Windows and Mac, you'll likely lose
all hinting, and the freetype autohinter will be used: Freetype
is often configured to ignore TrueType hints because of
software patent issues.

Liam

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