Re: Creating a new back-end for Pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/03/2009 01:51 PM, James Hu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to port Pango to the iPhone. The iPhone doesn't have ATSUI,
> but instead uses UIFont, which is a subset of the OS X's Cocoa Text
> system. And due to iPhone's memory size restraints, I'm trying to avoid
> including Cairo into the mix and draw directly with Core Graphics (which
> is what Cairo uses anyways).

Why would you want to use Pango then?

behdad


> Do you guys have any pointers on what classes need subclassing, and what
> hooks are available in Pango to include a new backend? Any help would be
> much appreciated. Thanks!
> -James Hu