[cairo] What is "user" about cairo user fonts?
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Mon Mar 31 00:29:47 PDT 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:01 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello Behdad, others,
Hi Leon,
> I have tried to understand what is so "user" about "user fonts" in
> cairo, but failed.
>
> Does it mean that cairo user font support does not require a font
> providing subsystem, such as freetype?
Yes. The user of cairo provides all the font data.
> In any way, please consider the API namespace.
Some people may prefer the name application-fonts, but that's not any
better than user-fonts but is longer. Do you have any other thing in
mind?
> Regards,
Cheers,
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