Re: Will Xft2 support sbits?

"Conner Mo" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In "ft2demos" package there is a program called "ftview", and I found it has 
sbit and sbit cache in it. Then I looked through the "ftcommon.i" file, and 
I found the codes which make use of FT2's sbit functions. I wonder if it is 
possible to put them into XFT2. Thank you.


>From: Keith Packard <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>CC: Keith Packard <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Render] Will Xft2 support sbits? Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 
>16:10:24 -0700
>
>
>Around 18 o'clock on May 15, "Conner" wrote:
>
> > It'll be great if Xft2 can support sbits.
>
>Xft uses FreeType2 to rasterize glyphs; I suggest that the appropriate
>place to add sbits support is down in the rasterizer library so that all
>font consumers could get access to that.
>
>FreeType is a pretty clean library, it might take only a short time to
>figure out how it could support sbits.
>
>Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab
>
>
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