[cairo] Cairo and GdiPlus or two win32 backends

[Hans Breuer]

Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 23 o'clock on Jan 16, Hans Breuer wrote:
> 
> 
>>every Gimp specific text processing is done on 
>>top of freetype/fontconfig cause they provides a richer api.
> 
> 
> The goal is to provide native font APIs on each platform, but to also 
> allow FreeType/fontconfig on any platform.  This way applications get to 
> choose between inter- and intra- platform consistency.
> 
> Btw -- what functionality does the Gimp require that Windows doesn't
> provide?
> 
Render to bitmap, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94791
   and
Rendering to outlines, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107668

It's not Windows not providing this functionality, but the Pango API.

	Hans

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