Re: --export w/o $DISPLAY?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le jeu, sep 06, 2001, à 04:12:43 -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
> 
>> > Conceptually, it's not complicated at all: just find the width of a
>> > text in a given font. Technically, well, I'm waiting for patches,
>> > because this is beyond my capacity.
>> 
>> Check the FreeType mailing list archives, some other program does this
>> (kludgily) by looking for the font.dir files in some standard places.
> 
> This is why I'd prefer delegate this stuff to a font manager like
> defoma....

That's a possibility, though it shouldn't be a necessity.

>> My freetype code uses XGetFontPath, which also requires a display.
> 
> ... but is this all it needs a display for (barring, obviously, the
> rendering step) ?

Indeed.  The rendering step actually only touches X when we are ready to
copy the bitmaps (I'm still stuck there.)

-Lars

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