Re: Questions about the font shaping tender

This does seem a bit odd… unless we want to make AFM parsing cross-platform?

The only thing that I’m aware implements AFM parsing is PrintFontManager, which is only used by 
Unix-based platforms. 

Could we get some clarification around this?

Oh, and also - Khaled, once this is clarified why don’t you go for the tender? I can’t think of 
anyone I’d more highly recommend than yourself, and I’m reasonably certain you have some good ideas 
around how to fix the SalLayout mess... certainly you have the technical expertise and experience 
to tackle this. 

Just a suggestion :-)

Chris

> On 1 Feb 2016, at 9:35 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
>
> I just came across this tender [1] and it is not quite clear to me what
> is it about. Am I right in thinking this is about having a shared
> cross-platform implementation of VCL text layout API (the dreaded
> SalLayout et all)? If so I don’t understand what AFM stuff is doing here
> since we don’t use any of this AFM stuff during text layout as far as I
> can know and I don’t see how it can even be reused for such a task.
>
> 1. 
> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2015/12/16/tender-for-cross-platform-fontshaping-stubs-for-layout-tests-201512-05/
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
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