Ah, sadly that is outside my experience. I suggest you make a new posting to the list with a subject similiar to "Pango problems with international fonts on windows", and describe the problem like you did in your previous mail.<br>
<br>Another thing you can check is to make a GTK program and see if it renders the international text, that would eliminate whether it's how cairo+pango is compiled or being used.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:17 AM, <<a href="mailto:robertk54@aol.com">robertk54@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><div class="Ih2E3d">>Is getting a list of installed fonts a requirement or are you just working with a fixed set of fonts? I am trying to understand >what's not working. Is some fonts not working but other as well? Font names that are not working would be useful.<br>
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Yes, I think. The final product needs to support any font a user wants to use. I do not want to limit this to a predefined set that we include within our product. We need to allow for users installing thier own fonts, perhaps fonts they develop themselves (within reasonable limititations). I am assuming this means I need to support a user providing a font pattern which the product will search for, find and render onto the Cairo ARGB surface. If Cairo + Pango alone can handle this then this is great.<br>
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My initial development used Cairo alone. This was ok for a start but limited the types of fonts to those with 'standard' layouts (left to right). My second step was to integrate with Pango to allow for use of 'non-standard' (Hebrew, Chinese, etc.) layouts. I got to the point where Cairo + Pango worked with 'standard' fonts, but I could not get the 'non-standard' stuff working. I asumed all I need do was implement the gravity attributes but all I could get was boxes instead of text with anything but the vertical selection. Since I assumed I needed to add FontConfig and FreeType at some point I thought perhaps I was not using the correct font sets and that it was a good time to add these libraries. Once I added FontConfig and FreeType I was able to determine all the available fonts and implemented a means to provide the font pattern to select a particular one. It was at this point I determined that only some of the fonts would render as
expected and the others would all seem to render using some default font. I could supply more detail about which fonts rendered as expected and which did not. At this point it was suggested that I needed Cairo + FreeType to allow the font pattern to be passed to Cairo properly. This is why I started my search for the binaries or build environment.<br>
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Once I get the basics working I need to do some more advanced layouts. My code can already animate the text (scroll and fade). We need to do things similar to PowerPoint animations. One example would be a wave pattern where letters are higher than others. The high point will scroll down the text string at some rate. I am hoping I can achieve this using Pango but this is not a big concern at this point.<br>
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