[Open Office] Re: Advanced Font Properties Question(Freetype+Fontconfig)

[Jan Uhlir]

Hi Michael and others,
For me it's seems to be easier to implement advanced font properties for VLC for now.
At least check - hinting, autohinting, antialiasing, bitmap - properties from fontconfig and try to apply them to OOo glyphs.
I'm just a humble Java programmer with just a little real C++ experience.

Can I ask again who is author of this patch?
http://ooo.ximian.com/patches/test/vcl-font-hinting.diff
..and what is the purpose of the patch and why is in testing directory?
It seems to be a good starting point for me.


>
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 13:38 +0100, Jan Uhlir wrote:
> > > > Does someone work in go--oo.org community on better integratation of
> > > > Fontconfig? I spot a patch add hinting support into OOo.
> 
> Well - this is sort of an orthogonal issue to Cairo really.
> 
> > By the way, what is the status of Cairo integration with Writer? As far
> as
> > I know it is (was?) intended only for Impress.
> > Cairo should bring fontconfig support for OOo should it? ;-)
> 
> It's great that you're interested in better output in writer - I'm sure
> Radek can help you get involved hacking on that problem :-)
> 
> > I'm just building with --enable-cairo so I probably will see soon .. 
> 
> So - currently only the slideshow itself uses canvas - none of the core
> of OO.o does; there is a chunk of work to be done to convert the
> rendering core to use the new canvas instead of the existing direct VCL
> rendering. A great task to get involved in though.
> 
> Radek ?
> 
> Michael.
> 
> -- 
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