[Q] TrueType fonts

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Nov 3 00:44:24 PST 2009


Le Mar 3 novembre 2009 04:39, liujm a écrit :
>
> seems the fonts are mostly rendered at client side now.
> not in the xserver, you can use any widgets you like.
> xtt and xft seems are not used now.
>
> such as
> gtk->pango->freetype
> qt->freetype

Do not forget fontconfig. Using freetype directly without passing through a
shaper such as pango that queries fontconfig is not the way to support text
properly nowadays (I said pango because I don't remember the name of the
equivalent QT lib; and to add to your GTK and QT paths a very common one is
cairo=>pango=>freetype+fontconfig)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot





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