Re: Cairo and ISO C++
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
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On 14-01-22 07:32 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 19:16 -0500, Michael McLaughlin wrote: > Here are a few things that are missing from Cairo: > > 1. The ability to use fonts that are not installed on the system (i.e. > user fonts) at the same time one uses system fonts. (There is a user > font API in Cairo but isn't integrated with the other font back ends.) > > 2. Font selection. The world is more than 'normal' and 'bold' or > 'normal' and 'italic'. Font families often have many more variants. This > is a very important point for designers. For a better idea of what is > required see: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/ You have nicely summarized some of the shortcomings of the cairo *toy* text API. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo