[cairo] bolding FT_Faces in cairo
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Sat Apr 19 20:03:40 PDT 2008
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 04:51 -0400, Stuart Parmenter wrote:
> uh, yeah, with the patch...
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Stuart Parmenter <stuartp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> Here in Mozilla land we needed a way to use embolden with
> cairo and FT_Faces. I've added code to support FC_FT_FACE on
> the FcPattern as well as added a cairo_ft_font_face_embolden
> function that returns a bold version of a cairo_font_face_t.
> In addition, I was hitting some problems with creating
> multiple unscaled fonts for a single FT_Face, so I added it to
> the hashtable so cairo would return the same unscaled font if
> you call create_for_ft_face a lot.
>
> comments welcome!
Thanks Stuart! I like the patch generally, and this sure has been a
missing feature. OO.o asked for it too. I don't like the embolen()
function though. How about a more generic font-face constructor that
takes an FT_Face and load-flags?
> stuart
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