Hi Aric,
Thanks for reply.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Aric Stewart aric@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!