Font problems (wrong font is used) (sorry for the delay Gerard!!)

[gerard patel]

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:22:20 GMT, lee at leadtec.com (Lee Allen) wrote:


>Gerard, there have been posts in the past suggesting that xfont.c
>needs work.  My company is in a position where (1) we are about to
>gain some benefit from Wine, so (2) we would be willing to contribute
>something to its development (money not technical expertise), and (3)
>we are having problems with fonts.
>
>I posted a question earlier this week and have not received an answer:
>Would it be possible for us to cause the font mapping stuff to be
>improved by contributing to the development?  If so, how would we go
>about doing this, as we don't have the technical expertise to define
>what needs to be done?

Read wine-devel. Quote from a mail this day :

>This should all be a lot easier when I get a FreeType engine bolted on
>to gdi.  Then psdrv,x11drv,ttydrv(?) will all have access to the same
>data and thus consistancy should not be a problem.

>Huw.

There is much to come. If you want to pay for it, Huw is
working for Codeweavers - Pls note that I do *not*
work for them :-)

Gerard