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Re: better back-art support in core |
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07 Jun 2003 17:27:27 -0400 |
Having it's own font handling and having a completely seperate font
system that doesnt take advantage of system fonts are very different. If
it'd make sense to have gnustep take it's fonts from an X font server
i'd suggest that but then the backend would depend on an x font server
which probably isnt desirable. but it's the only solution i can think of
at the second that doesnt require a large amount of configuration to be
specific to the system you're using. since X11 is a requirement for
back-art it might make sense, and it would certainly be less of a pain
than nfont packages.
could nfont packages be used by X11?
also, it seems alexm has just fixed the issues with back-art that make
it depend on specific freetype versions. since he hasnt made an
announcement yet:
<alexm_> committed
<alexm_> back-art should now work out of the box with versions <=2.1.2,
and >=2.1.3
<alexm_> except 2.1.4, which is broken and needs a patch:
http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/ftlru.c.diff
it also seems alexm fixed the wiki so that it's no longer ascii art of a
penis. o.0
-Travis Tilley-
aka Lv and Aphelion
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 04:00, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Well, fact is that gnustep requires its own font handling. Mainly because
> fonts are not used only for displaying, but also for generating postscript
> (and pdf) output. Therefore we need either some system-dependent gnustep font
> manager (which is not gnustep-back dependet) or 'fonts JUST for gnustep that
> are usable ONLY by gnustep'. Using only X fonts is not sufficient and you
> still need some gnustep specific management (to convert screen fonts to
> printer fonts and vice versa, and to get apropriate postscript font name and
> font data for inlining).
>
> Gnustep should either:
> - have a tool that will generate .nfont/.font packages from X11 fonts in (for
> example) Local/Library/Fonts/X11. Problem with X font management is that it
> is screen oriented (even you have type1 or tt fonts there).
> or
> - have following architecture (view the table in some proportional width font)
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> +---------------------------------+
> | gui |
> +--------------+------------------+
> | font manager | |
> | bundle | |
> + +=========+ |
> | | backend bundle |
> +----+----------------------------+
> | host environment/os |
> +---------------------------------+
>
> In this diagram ===== represents font rendering/glyph layout interface with
> backend.
> Stefan Urbanek
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