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Re: [ft] GSUB opentype
From: |
Antoine Leca |
Subject: |
Re: [ft] GSUB opentype |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:11:51 +0100 |
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> FreeType 1 contained (actually, still contains) a general use
>> library to access _and_ use the GSUB and GPOS tables to arbitrarily
>> strings of glyphs, but development was discontinued years ago. It
>> may perhaps be still useful to develop test tools.
>
> I don't recommend this. Instead, you should try the `Harfbuzz'
> library which is part of the pango distribution. This is basically
> the OpenType support from FreeType 1, lifted to FreeType 2, and with
> tons of bug fixes and improvements.
Noted.
Thanks for the pointer, Werner.
Antoine
Re: [ft] GSUB opentype, Antoine Leca, 2007/01/19