[Haskell-cafe] Trouble installing and using Chart/cairo on windows 7

[briand at aracnet.com]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:58:37 -0500
Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> 
> Good access to fonts and font metrics is the kicker.  Otherwise I'd
> say to switch to using diagrams as a backend, hence getting a whole
> bunch of actual backends for free.  I would love to see development of
> some good Haskell font packages -- maybe it would even make a good
> GSoC project?  Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to even know
> what would be involved, or how much work it would be.
> 

I assume that to use diagram the font package would have to be a vector font system, or could bit-mapped fonts be used ?