[cairo] Vertical Text Issue

robertk54 at aol.com robertk54 at aol.com
Tue Apr 15 11:47:44 PDT 2008


>> >Vertical text only works with the FreeType cairo font backend right
>> >now, if that's what you mean.

>> Ah, ok.  That'll do it.  The missing link.  Thanks.  Can I assume 
then
>> this will work fine on Linux as-is since this uses FreeType under 
the
>> hood by default?

>Yes.

>It will also work with other font backends when we add
>cairo_font_options_set_writing_system().  That may happen for 1.8.

So, if I want to do this on Windows today I would need to use FreeType 
and FontConfig in addition to Cairo and Pango?


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