Comments on: A good week for text and graphics http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/ There is a third way Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:18:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alp Toker » Blog Archive » WebKit/GTK+ API design http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-2636 Alp Toker » Blog Archive » WebKit/GTK+ API design Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:26:16 +0000 http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-2636 [...] #15610: International/complex text rendering support using Pango. The Imendio guys are working to complete and integrate my initial work on this feature. [...] [...] #15610: International/complex text rendering support using Pango. The Imendio guys are working to complete and integrate my initial work on this feature. [...]

]]> By: alp http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1203 alp Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:13:29 +0000 http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1203 glandium: The Imendio guys have a patch for font selection. It's independent of my changes here, though the two features will fit together nicely. See http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15229 (Bug 15229: [gtk] abstract font management by using pango). Nicolas: You are right, it is tricky. We will learn what the right balance is as we get more users, and when we do formal benchmarking. glandium: The Imendio guys have a patch for font selection. It’s independent of my changes here, though the two features will fit together nicely. See http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15229 (Bug 15229: [gtk] abstract font management by using pango).

Nicolas: You are right, it is tricky. We will learn what the right balance is as we get more users, and when we do formal benchmarking.

]]> By: Nicolas Mailhot http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1202 Nicolas Mailhot Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:37:48 +0000 http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1202 I hope you know what you do with the heuristic - modern fonts use opentype tricks even in latin/greek/cyrillic unicode blocks, so bypassing pango may not work so well for any script. I hope you know what you do with the heuristic - modern fonts use opentype tricks even in latin/greek/cyrillic unicode blocks, so bypassing pango may not work so well for any script.

]]> By: glandium http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1201 glandium Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:58:57 +0000 http://www.atoker.com/blog/2007/10/21/a-good-week-for-text-and-graphics/#comment-1201 Does this mean the font selection problems are over ? Does this mean the font selection problems are over ?

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