[cairo] Color fonts

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Jun 30 15:29:28 UTC 2017


On Jun 30, 2017 7:51 PM, "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:02 +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28.06.2017 14:23, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > All of you have asked me about the status of color fonts in
> > cairo.  There's
> > some discussion here:
>
> what was the solution to make this fit into cairo's drawing model?
> Text
> / glyphs are used as a mask and a mask does not have colors.
>

There is no solution to that. The assumption in cairo's drawing model
about glyphs/fonts has simply been invalidated by reality.


Correct.
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