2015-07-28 20:51 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:

So apparently Firefox uses Pango on top of Cairo to render fonts. Is that something we can apply? Because the results from pangocairo looks much better than what is currently in Bloc.

Can you show an example. with some info about: what platform cairo version the font

Or maybe I should be looking into Athens-based solution? What is Athens thens? I thought that it's vector canvas, but that's what cairo is. Is athens just Smalltalk binding? Where is the line?

Yes, Athens is the API and cairo is the backend. All rendering happens through cairo (and freetype).

Thanks, Peter

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:

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but I don't know if we will do this ever or if it is possible at all.

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What do you mean not possible? That Bloc will have ugly jagged font without kerning?

I mean whole Firefox (Gecko) is rendered on Cairo, so surely the issue can't be in Cairo. So maybe we just need to implement/wrap/bridge something somewhere?

So if I want usable fonts I will need to start studying athens/cairo internals?

Peter