[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Tue Sep 12 21:57:14 CEST 2006


Chris Roccati wrote:

> 
> This will create a dependence on an external and optional library under
> MacOS X (and most likely under Win32 too).

So?

> This does not sound like a good idea.

Why?

> An OS-Dependent font rendering layer which could be adapted to FreeType 
> under unix, ATSUI under MacOSX and whatever they use under Win32 is
> probably a better idea.

No it isn't and doesn't make much sense since last time I see something
non X11 the fonts were way worse.

lu

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