Re: Using pango without fontconfig

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:15 -0700, Abu Ismail wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I'm trying to use pango to provide persian text
shaping for an
> application. The application uses the freetype library
but uses its
> own way of accessing font files instead of fontconfig. 
So I already
> have access to the string pathname to the ttf font file
I want to use.
> I  looked at the low level functions in the pango
manual but I can't
> figure out how to build a pangolayout without using
fontconfig. Is
> this possible?

Not right now.

> If so, can somone guide me how to do this? 

Others that have wanted to do this are using the fribidi2
module from
fribidi.org which does the bidi reordering and Arabic
shaping part you
need.

> Thank you

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I was trying to do something similar a while back. It would
be nice to remove 
the extra Fontconfig dependency. Is there a release date for
the fribidi2 
module (with arabic shaping)? Or is there a stable branch in
CVS that can be 
used right now?

Thank you.

On Tue 01 May 2007 03:45, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:15 -0700, Abu Ismail wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm trying to use pango to provide persian text
shaping for an
> > application. The application uses the freetype
library but uses its
> > own way of accessing font files instead of
fontconfig.  So I already
> > have access to the string pathname to the ttf font
file I want to use.
> > I  looked at the low level functions in the pango
manual but I can't
> > figure out how to build a pangolayout without
using fontconfig. Is
> > this possible?
>
> Not right now.
>
> > If so, can somone guide me how to do this?
>
> Others that have wanted to do this are using the
fribidi2 module from
> fribidi.org which does the bidi reordering and Arabic
shaping part you
> need.
>
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