[Devel] Re: FT & PDF (was Re: 2.1.0 branch created)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 01:03 PM 1/10/2002 +0800, =?gb2312?B?V2FuZ1lpKM310uMp?= wrote:
> 2. About text rendering mode in PDF
> In PDF, text can be rendered as several modes, like fill text, stroke
> text, fill and stroke text, fill text and add it to the clipping path,
> stroke text and add it to the clipping path, etc. I hope that FreeType
> can support these rendering mode.

        FreeType fully supports all of these modes, when used correctly in 
conjunction with a full imaging library.  I have written a number of PDF 
rasterizers with FT2 doing the text rendering - and all of the above of 
supported.  I have also worked with FT2 in ImageMagick, which also supports 
them all - especially in our SVG support.

        On a related note, I have submitted patches to Xpdf to support all 
of the above modes in conjunction with its FT2 support.


Leonard