[cairo] Cairo and GdiPlus or two win32 backends

[Øyvind Kolås]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:51:46 +0100, Hans Breuer <hans at breuer.org> wrote:
> backends? e.g. The GIMP currently uses GTK's Pango engine just for GTK's
> business (menus and dialogs), every Gimp specific text processing is done on
> top of freetype/fontconfig cause they provides a richer api.

>From The GIMP 2.0 onwards, Pango does the layouting, fontconfig and
freetype are used to control some parameters that are not
exposed/available through Pango.

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