Dave Harris wrote:

In-Reply-To: <dic90t$l4e$1@sea.gmane.org> joel@boost-consulting.com (Joel de Guzman) wrote (abridged):

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Sure they do text.

I didn't say they didn't. I just said I didn't find any documentation on it.

They seem to support a freetype backend, which is what I used in the past, too. It supports both, anti-aliasing as well as hinting. As said before, high quality requires hinting to be used, which makes the glyphs' size (sub-pixel) position-dependent. This means that text composites need to have some special logic to absorb the differences, if ever we want for them to be device-independent. Regards, Stefan