I am at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto this week, which meant that I got to talk to GIMP and Inkscape developers after many years, and was reminded that Pango still doesn’t make it easy to use custom (aka application fonts), and it still does no… ادامه مطلب ←

So I missed the intel party it seems. I assume the tablets are GLES2-ready and have a fair pixel density. If that is the case, I can make good use of one for OpenGL-based text rendering I’m experimenting with. If there are leftovers at the summit, I… ادامه مطلب ←

So I missed the intel party it seems. I assume the tablets are GLES2-ready and have a fair pixel density. If that is the case, I can make good use of one for OpenGL-based text rendering I\’m experimenting with. If there are leftovers at the summit, I… ادامه مطلب ←

Just got to the Desktop Summit in Berlin. It’s lovely seeing everyone after two years.I’m running Text Layout Summit August 9th to 12th, so come find me for some font and text chat! ادامه مطلب ←

Just got to the Desktop Summit in Berlin. It\’s lovely seeing everyone after two years.I\’m running Text Layout Summit August 9th to 12th, so come find me for some font and text chat! ادامه مطلب ←

June 18th was my last day at Red Hat.I spent last week road-tripping to Eastern Canada with my friends.In a couple of weeks I will start working for Google Canada in the Waterloo office. I will be working for a large part on HarfBuzz as part of the Ch… ادامه مطلب ←

June 18th was my last day at Red Hat.I spent last week road-tripping to Eastern Canada with my friends.In a couple of weeks I will start working for Google Canada in the Waterloo office. I will be working for a large part on HarfBuzz as part of the Ch… ادامه مطلب ←

Since the rewritten HarfBuzz is shaping up fast and getting lots of Buzz these days, I get asked the same question again and again: “Will HarfBuzz replace Pango?” This post tries to answer that.Short answer: No, not at all! Pango is here to stay. It… ادامه مطلب ←

Since the rewritten HarfBuzz is shaping up fast and getting lots of Buzz these days, I get asked the same question again and again: \”Will HarfBuzz replace Pango?\” This post tries to answer that.Short answer: No, not at all! Pango is here to stay. It… ادامه مطلب ←

Here is a quick update re HarfBuzz:During May and August I finished rewriting the OpenType Layout engine to use mmap()ed font files. This is in Pango 1.26.x already. Pango and fontconfig also received a lot more optimization love. That deserves a lo… ادامه مطلب ←