Re: [cairo] Color fonts

Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:21:10 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general,gmane.comp.lib.cairo
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On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:02 +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 28.06.2017 14:23, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > All of you have asked me about the status of color fonts in
> > cairo.  There's
> > some discussion here:
> 
> what was the solution to make this fit into cairo's drawing model?
> Text
> / glyphs are used as a mask and a mask does not have colors.
> 

There is no solution to that. The assumption in cairo's drawing model
about glyphs/fonts has simply been invalidated by reality.