Hi Mike!
The information about how you use the freetype2 autohinter is very
valuable for me, just the kind of thing I wanted to know :-)
On Mar 6, 1:50 pm, Mike Reed <
r...@android.com> wrote:
> More android fonts would be excellent.
@font-face is going to make it happen for free software fonts,
although the recession might scupper things, I think... :-(
> Complex script support is coming. We are looking at several libraries
> (pango, ICU layout, etc.). We intend to take advantage of opentype
> tables for shaping and cool ligature formation.
I strongly recommend
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
over pango or ICU. Eric Mader, the principle developer of ICU, and
Behdad Esfahbod, the principle developer of pango, will be at the Text
Layout Summit 2009 as part of the Libre Graphics Meeting, in Montreal
in early May.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/
It would be really great if someone from Skia could be there... :-)
Also, I read a nice interview with you a few months ago when I was
researching Android, but I now can't find it; it was quite funny, you
projected the Google vibe quite well, towards the end it went
something like "Q, what are you working on next? A, Just simple
engineering." :-) Do you recall this interview? :-)
Cheers,
Dave