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------- Additional comments from mox@openoffice.org Wed Apr 23 11:01:22 +0000 2008 ------- Hi,
I agree that using pango/harfbuzz for layout, instead of the OOo-specific one is highly desired.
However, to be eligible as a replacement for VCL (and justify the amount of work), it would need to provide SAME or BETTER font layout as VCL does currently AND have that level of quality as CROSS PLATFORM library. Just porting one platform is not enough.
So a layout replacement would need to support equally well AT LEAST - Unix/X11, Windows and Mac OS X. Preferably using platform native functions on Win/Mac when possible, while ensuring there are not major differences on layout on different platforms. (Mozilla/Firefox is aiming at "no differences", I guess).
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