On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Dirk Schulze <vbs85@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.06.2010, 19:42 +1200 schrieb Robert O'Callahan: > > Most graphics APIs offer a way to convert text to path data. I think > > canvas and SVG should too. > > > It partly depends on the graphic library. Cairo has a very good support > for converting texts to paths. Other librarys don't provide a way to do > this or have a very bad support for it (don't support miter-limit, don't > give the correct path for the stroke of the text and so on). > Which libraries? cairo uses freetype, GDI, and Quartz internally and they all seem to be fine. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]
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