On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:14, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
We're dropping support for this code and for core X fonts
in the next release of Pango,
In favour of what? (FreeType on client side?)
Yes, using the Xft and fontconfig libraries. (http://www.fontconfig.org)
If you have the RENDER extension (XFree86 from the last several years,
recent Sun X server), it takes advantage of that to do efficient
compositing of antialiased glyphs on the server side
Using legacy X servers, it renders using standard X primitives either
antialiased or not, and the performance is quite usable.
The advantages are pretty huge:
- Real unicode charmaps, instead of legacy encoding schemes.
- Access to all the font tables, so you can do complex-text layout
using OpenType
- No need to pull huge metrics and charmaps tables over the
X connection
Etc.
Regards,
Owen
