Re: [ft] Rendering of Taiwan fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am trying to use FreeType 2.1.10 to render Arabic, Taiwan fonts to
> bitmap.  Unfortunatelly I do not know if it is possible to render
> text not per letter basis (render each letter separately that works
> fine) but as a whole (the result should be different than in the
> first case). Please, is it possible to do it with this library? If
> so, can you provide me a sample how to do it, please?

It will work (more or less) for Chinese typeset horizontally, because
it has a simple glyph model.  It won't work for Arabic: You need a
shaping engine.  Try the Pango, Qt, or ICU library.  All of them can
be configured to use FreeType as the rendering engine.


    Werner