Need suggestion to choose a GSoC idea

[Qian Hong]

Hi Aric,

Thanks for reply.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Aric Stewart <aric at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Oh, I would love this. However speaking from experience font code is very
> hard. You would need to directly specify what you wanted to try to do and
> what needs improvement. The code there is very messy and fragile but also
> critical so it gets tricky to make any sweeping modifications.
>
>
My favorite is to implement Font Association support, since currently we have
no workaround for it without recompile source code. However, before investigate
on font issue deeply, could I ask here for other wine developers' work plan?
Just half day after I post my previous email, Huw and Kusanagi have sent their
patches regarding font support to wine-patch. we have multiple developers
working on this area, to prevent duplicate work, could you tell me is anyone
working on Font Association support?

Thanks a lot!

>
> I dont know if we need OCR.  With the dib engine if we have a known font we
> can probably just do bitmap compares. I am not an expert here but it sounds
> interesting.
>

I didn't known we can just do bitmap compares, if that's possible I
think the OCR
plan could be schedule low priority, maybe I'll investigate it in the
future. Is it a
good GSoC idea to improve font related testcase base on bitmap compares?

Thank you!




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Qian Hong

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