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Re: [ft] Right-to-left layouts, help needed
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mpsuzuki |
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Re: [ft] Right-to-left layouts, help needed |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:50:38 +0900 |
Hi
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:35:19 +0200
address@hidden wrote:
>Hello, pls. excuse my newbie-question - I've just started with FreeType a
>few days ago. Could somebody point me into the right direction regarding
>kerning and distance calculation on right-to-left text layouts ? I didn'd
>found anything in the documentation online.
If you want to render Arabic or Hebrew text, direct usage of
FreeType2 might be insufficient (because FreeType2 is primarily
designed as "font" rasterizer, not as text layout system),
I recommend you to check ICU, Pango, Qt or m17n lib.
Regards,
mpsuzuki