Hi, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At 8:37 PM +0100 2/7/02, Sven Neumann wrote: > >I hope do be able to complete the new text tool anytime soon and it > >is supposed to give you even better rendering than gimp-freetype > >combined with the features of GDynText. > > Will it still use FreeType for the actual rendering of the > glyphs? And if not, then what? yes, it will use Freetype2 but somewhat hidden behind a Pango layer. The advantage of using Pango on top of Freetype2 is that it takes care of all the ugly details of glyph positioning and shaping. Salut, Sven
