Re: gEDA-user: gschem fonts

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 00:49 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:30:35 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > Another way being investigated was using new arbitrary "user" font
> > support being developed for cairo, to cache rendered glyphs and speed
> > things up. 
> 
> This seems to me the ultimate solution. Let some external library 
> programmer do the hard work :-)
> 
> 
> > This arbitrary font support in cairo hasn't even been merged
> > or released yet, so we might end up needing to wait for a bleeding-edge
> > version of that library.
> 
> Any prediction how long I should hold my breath? Months? Years?

http://cairographics.org/roadmap/

November 2008 is suggested, but the support isn't merged yet. Hopefully
other nice feature scheduled for that release will be ability to add
hyperlinks in the pdf output.

Hopefully those two at least will land.

Best regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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