Re: [ft-devel] Want to work on a project to add support for the 'SVG ' OpenType table to render color fonts.

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I had also discussed about *librsvg* by GNOME as potential library
>> that can fit the job.  Although as told by Werner Sir it is porting
>> to rust but still its API is in C.
> 
> `librsvg-2' looks fine to me: [...]

I still want an evaluation of various SVG libraries as part of the
GSoC project describing pros and cons – even if used only to reject
everything but `librsvg-2'.

>> Whether to edit both Glyph positioning (otvgpos.c) and substitution
>> tables (otvgsub.c) or only positioning,I want to know about this.
> 
> I am not sure about that, Werner might have an answer for you
> there :)

Please completely forget `otv*'; this is not related to SVG support.
The idea of SVG handling is very simple:

  * Extract the SVG data from the `SVG' table,
  * build a proper SVG document and send it to the SVG library for
    rendering,
  * receive a bitmap (or pixmap) and use it similar to other bitmap
    glyphs within FreeType.

There is no higher-level stuff to consider.  Just follow the OpenType
specification. :-)


      Werner