On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
To be honest, I have no idea how many of those things can be done by freetype2, but I highly doubt its OTF support will be sufficient.
As a matter of fact, while FreeType 1 came with a few utilities demonstrating basic OpenType capabilities, FreeType 2 dropped them entirely, and it seems, from browsing the documentation, that there there is not even an OpenType-specific API in the latter (whereas there is one for BDF, PCF, PFR fonts ...) I've always wondered about this fact, but couldn't find any reason for it.
If Werner Lemberg reads the list, maybe he can enlighten us.
AFAIK, they felt that OpenType layout should be handled by a higher level layer, that happen to be HarfBuzz (which is based on FreeType1 OT code). http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team