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Issue 1523023002: Documentation: text shaping (Closed) Base URL: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git@master

Patch Set: 2015-12-14 (Monday) 12:24:31 EST Created 5 years ago

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@@ -135,10 +135,22 @@ Does Skia support Font hinting?

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Skia has a built-in font cache, but it does not know how to actual render font

-files like TrueType? into its cache. For that it relies on the platform to

-supply an instance of SkScalerContext?. This is Skia's abstract interface for

+files like TrueType into its cache. For that it relies on the platform to

+supply an instance of SkScalerContext. This is Skia's abstract interface for

communicating with a font scaler engine. In src/ports you can see support

-files for FreeType?, Mac OS X, and Windows GDI font engines. Other font

+files for FreeType, Mac OS X, and Windows GDI font engines. Other font

engines can easily be supported in a like manner.

+* * *

+<span id="kerning"></span>

+Does Skia shape text (kerning)?

+-------------------------------

+No. Skia provides interfaces to draw glyphs, but does not implement a

+text shaper. Skia's client's often use Harfbuzz to generate the glyphs

caryclark 2015/12/14 17:51:23 How about a link to harfbuzz.org (or http://www.fr

+and their positions, including kerning.

+<div style="margin-bottom:99%"></div>

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