[cairo] cairo/quartz on iPhone

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 03:52 -0500, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> 
> The Quartz backend works as-is; the only issue there is that it was  
> including Carbon.h, when it really should just be including  
> CoreGraphics.h.  The bigger issue is that the iPhone does not have  
> ATSUI (which is fine -- ATS is being deprecated on OSX overall), so
> I  
> wrote a start of a CGFont backend.  This really should be the main  
> backend for Quartz; we can main compat with the old ATSUI font_face  
> creation function pretty easily, but the ATSUI internals should go  
> away.  I might try to do this before we release 1.6, as I'd like to  
> see Quartz become a supported backend in 1.6 and these are really  
> general non-iPhone specific issues.

Min elaborating a bit for an Apple-illiterate like me?  ATSUI is being
deprecated?  What will do text layout in the future then?  What's the
different between CGFont and ATS, functionality-wise?  Those kind of
things...

Also, getting quartz as supported in 1.6 may not be very realistic.  If
you are serious about it, you may want to move the quartz_image stuff
into a separate header file for now.  Without those, the cairo-quartz.h
API looks solid.  Same about cairo-atsui.h, even if atsui will be
deprecated, that function is still useful, and we can add other
font-face constructors in the future.  Or should the CGFont stuff be
done as a new font backend with a new type?

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