星期二 2005年05月10日

Cairo will be the next generation rendering engine for Unix/Linux. it use uniform architecture for display and printing, just the same as Windows GDI/GDI+. These days I discussed about the current status of cairo postscript backend with Owen Taylor. As Owen said, currently, The PDF backend is closer to working "right". It currently has some bugs in embedding fonts, but should work almost OK for CJK TrueType fonts, though not for Type1 fonts (especially CID fonts.) But for PS backend, it just generates a big image. and Kristian Høgsberg is starting to work on a "real" PS backend. The first piece of work needed for that is cairo infrastructure ... a way of figuring what areas of drawing can be drawn with Postscript primitives and what areas need to be drawn with images. (Because of alpha transparency, for example.) There will be lots of work after that to fix up embedding of different types of fonts into Postscript files. That's a good chance to plug ourselves into this project and do some contributions.

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IIIMF 12.2 is released and IRC meeting for 12.4 On 2nd May, which is a day of golden week in Japan and China, IIIMF version 12.2 was released. The announcement see: Leon Ho's announcement That is a really a great milestone that we added so many features in this release. Now, we are moving forward to next release 12.4. Today, IRC meeting (irc.freestandards.org/#iiimf) is opening to discuss the following topics: * Schedule * Feedback on feature implementation * Feedback from users on usability * Things that we need to keep on doing * Things that we need to improve * QA * Release engineering Welcome to join! ( 2005年05月10日, 08:49:23 上午 CST ) Permalink 评论 [0]