Re: noise: Freetype and Windows

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> --- Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> > > This is probably just noise, so forgive me.
> > > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType
> > > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim
> > > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't
> > > have any external dependencies and can be compiled and
> > > installed on its own on any kind of system."
> > >  http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements
> >
> > Well, our main Win32 guy, Hans Breuer, said this the last time I
> > suggested
> > using all FreeType:
> >
> > -----
> > It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on
> > Pango Head')
> > cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X but IMHO needs a
> > complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. Remember on win32
> > there already is a built-in font configuration which does not require
> >
> > an *nix like config files but provides device independent font
> > matching 
> > (same code can be used to render to display or printer or to wmf). 
> > This exactly is what the win32 specific Dia print code does.
> > -----
> >
> > The "Heads up on Pango Head" mentioned is a thread on gtk-i18n-list
> > and
> > gtk-devel-list.  It's not FreeType itself (sorry if I made it look
> > that
> > way), but the Pango interface to FreeType.
>
> This is interesting,
> currently I am working on free type, getting other errors, but am
> planning on porting it and pango. If dia does not need it, then ok.
> Otherwise, there is defoma, the debian font manager. Otherwise I am
> willing to give it a try, please tell me more.

As I understand it, Win32 Dia only requires Freetype for EPS export.
Printing is done via the native printing interface, and antialiasing via
the native font interface.  

-Lars

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