[cairo] Recommended method to use text on Windows CE/ Win32

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> Mike Shaver wrote:    
>   
>> Firefox uses Freetype on Windows CE, we'll move to use harfbuzz as
>> well in the future I believe.
>>
>> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/thebes/src/gfxFT2Fonts.cpp
>>
>> If you care about a subset of languages or fonts, your code could
>> likely be a lot simpler; strange fonts and flexible control over font
>> selection for different languages contributes a lot of lines to that
>> code.
>>
>> Mike
>>   
>>     
> Thanks Mike - I'll take a look at that to get started.  For now, we can 
> restrict ourselves to English... though the future is wide open.. but 
> I'm willing to revisit language support again when we need it.
>   

To further add to this, we only really need basic text support for 
labels, etc.  It just needs to be able to render a couple of fonts in a 
couple of sizes... in English.  I was hoping to get something small and 
simple to meet the needs.

Cheers,
Mohit.
9/25/2009 | 9:12 AM.