[cairo] User font take 2

[Keith Packard]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:09 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here's an update on the user font feature that I've been working on. 
> Since the last update, I've made poppler use user fonts for rendering
> type3 fonts, and I've incorporated some of Behdads suggestion from his
> reply.  Patch against cairo head is attached or browse the code in the
> user-font branch in my git archive.

Is there some reason to present this as a callback API instead of just a
way to lodge user fonts into the cairo system by providing sufficient
information? It seems like something very similar to the PS Type3
mechanism would work nicely and avoid a huge pile of application and
cairo complexity/locking issues.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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