[scribus-dev] Casual PDF output

中本浩 hiroshi-n at borndigital.co.jp
Sun Feb 12 23:30:30 UTC 2012


So, will it be fine if the patches are enclosed in ! defiend(WINDOWS) ?

2012年2月13日月曜日 Jean Ghali jghali at libertysurf.fr:
> Le 12/02/2012 23:14, 中本浩 a écrit :
>> I believe Windows build requires Freetype, if I correctly read the
>> document below.
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Building_Scribus_on_Windows
>
> For building Scribus yes, not for building cairo. Cairo builds on Windows
may not contain
> freetype font backend and the build provided with scribus does not :
cairo freetype font
> backend has a dependency on fontconfig which is usually avoided on
Windows. That
> dependency is a long standing issue of cairo which has not been fixed as
of latest
> unstable release (1.11.2). Fontconfig is not a dependency of Scribus on
Windows and as a
> consequence cairo_ft_font_* functions will not be available.
>
>>
>> scprintengine_ps, which I patched, is never invoked on Windows at
>> printing, anyway.
>
> Not true, scprintengine_ps is used on Windows for "printing" postcript
files to disk.
>
>>
>> By the way, which platform uses scpainterex_cairo currently ?
>> At least, it is not used on Mac/Linux.
>
> Windows only currently. As a consequence you cannot assume in
scpainterex_cairo that the
> cairo_ft_font_* functions will be available.
>
>>
>> Currently, scprintengine_ps looks like used as
>> scprintengine_non_windows, and scprintengine_ps is not used on Windows
>> - correct me if I am wrong.
>
> As mentionned above scprintengine_ps is used on Windows for "printing"
postscript files to
> disk.
>
> Jean
>
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