Re: [Development] about the Cocoa/Freetype fontengine

2017-12-28 Thread Sérgio Martins
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 7:53 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Thursday December 28 2017 19:46:28 Sérgio Martins wrote: >> But adding fontconfig support should be quite trivial and wouldn't >> touch FT code. > > It used to be trivial to build Qt on Mac with fontconfig enabled (but not > actually u

Re: [Development] about the Cocoa/Freetype fontengine

2017-12-28 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday December 28 2017 19:46:28 Sérgio Martins wrote: > Check the last two comments of > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42839, there are no plans. Oops, sorry, I forgot about that. > I also wouldn't call it "evolving FreeType", as FreeType is > independent from the font database. B

Re: [Development] about the Cocoa/Freetype fontengine

2017-12-28 Thread Sérgio Martins
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 6:32 PM, René J. V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any plans to evolve the FreeType support on Mac any further, > possibly > adding FontConfig support so fonts can really be rendered in identical fashion > on at least the major Unix platforms? Hi René, Check the las

[Development] about the Cocoa/Freetype fontengine

2017-12-28 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, Are there any plans to evolve the FreeType support on Mac any further, possibly adding FontConfig support so fonts can really be rendered in identical fashion on at least the major Unix platforms? If so, would you consider making it easier to select the FreeType engine? I've been experimen