[cairo] Discussion: LCD Filtering API

[Behdad Esfahbod]

cu wrote:
> As a random Cairo user and FWIW, it would make my life a lot easier if
> Cairo had native font rasterization.
> 
> Making an application that can be distributed easily for anything other
> than Windows, and still be able to use fonts is somewhat of a challenge
> as of now. In particular, on Mac the Freetype/Fontconfig setup is not
> necessarily available by default (or if it is, it may come from X11
> install or from Macports). Lugging around one's own fontconfig isn't
> much better, since application needs libraries, config files, you name
> it (and this may or may not match actually installed fonts anyway). In
> this particular case "native font feel" is not necessary at all but
> portability (and less library dependencies) would certainly be appreciated.
> 
> Pardon the intrusion, but I happened to hit this exact issue no more
> than a day ago and just though of how useful it would be if Cairo
> included it's own font rasterization support.

This is not really what we're talking about here.  The rasterization may
happen in cairo, but you still need a font backend.  Be it fontconfig, Quartz
font, or win32 font.  Nothing changing there.

behdad

> Thanks for reading :)
> --Cu