Re: [ft-devel] A question about freetype and harfbuzz

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 01:48 -0400, LingNing Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a question about freetype and harfbuzz.
> FreeType1 includes an extension to support OpenType text layout 
> processing. But this support hasn't become part of FreeType2. Why?
> Why does FreeType2 not use the codes of harfbuzz to support OpenType 
> text layout processing?
> Thanks!
> :)

Hi Lingning,

harfbuzz is in fact based on the OpenType Layout code salvaged from
FreeType 1.  The reason for not carrying it over to FreeType2 like
Werner said is to let FreeType do one thing, and do it really good.

behdad


> Regards,
> Lingning Zhang
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