Re: PangoPDF 1.2.3.0 released

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 11:25, Tony Graham wrote:
> > PangoPDF is a version of Pango with additional PDF/PostScript backends
> > and support for additional XSL-related text attributes. This release
> > updates PangoPDF and its GNOME Print (pangogp), PDFlib, FT2, X, and
> > Xft backends to match Pango 1.2.3.
> > 
> > Download PangoPDF from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pangopdf/.
> 
> I'm being incredibly lazy here, and really should go look at the
> code, but why does PangoPDF have FT2/X/Xft backends? (Or, perhaps
> the real question is, what do you mean by "backend" here?)
> 
> I can't really see how you'd replace the Pango backend libraries
> and/or the shapers and keep keep things working reasonably.
>