[cairo] bolding FT_Faces in cairo

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sun Apr 20 16:22:19 PDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 08:19 +0300, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Heh, Stuart's going to kill me -- he originally had a generic  
> constructor that just added another int param along with FT_Face and  
> load flags, but I suggested embolden to clarify it a bit.  Ah well :)

I see..  Stuart also said Carl didn't like the idea of another
constructor.  Carl?  Another constructor that gives user the full
flexibility of load flags sounds to me exactly how the font backend API
should look like.

>      - Vlad

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