[ Thanks to Ken Guest
for this link. ]
We managed to snag some of [libart developer & Gimp module
hacker] Raph Levien‘s time for
an interview.
This makes for a very interesting read.
“Just what is the story with type1 fonts and X vs postscript.
The abiword folk have to ship seperate font metrics for the printed
output to use. Whats the skinny with this issue?”
“Whats the skinny on truetype fonts embedded in postscript, does
this work, can gnome do it, and is it going to cause hassle?”
“Have you been tempted to write a type1 rasterizer for XFree86,
im told that the existing one is not all that good and could be
improved, and you appear to be complemtating something of this
nature for the canvas?”
“Are the GNOME/GTK people going to replace imlib with another
rendering library – and is there any possibility of tying this in
with OpenGL to give people with DRI-supported 3D cards a big
speedup for anitaliasing, translucency and scaling, in the distant
future ?”