Hello David, I took Alexei's advice and have already started writing the standalone implementation. You can check it out here: https://github.com/preversewharf45/freetype2-sdf.
Thanks, Anuj On Mon, May 18, 2020, 12:20 PM David Turner <da...@freetype.org> wrote: > I agree with Alexei that it's probably a good idea to start writing a > prototype with whatever language / format you feel the more fluent first so > we can look at the algorithms and the outputted data. > This can later be rewritten into something more FreeType-specific (e.g. > fixed-floats are better than floats if you have simple ranges like > [-1.0..1.0] in general). > > - David > > Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 16:59, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodt...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:37 AM Anuj Verma <an...@iitbhilai.ac.in> >> wrote: >> > >> > > What do you need from FreeType to calculate DF? >> > > Do you see or know >> > where to find everything you need? >> > >> > I will need the bitmap and/or the outline depending upon the type of >> font. And yes I know where to find those. They both can be accessed from >> FT_Face. >> >> Great! Without further delay, go ahead and write a standalone program >> that calculates DF for a outline glyph in whatever format you choose >> or is appropriate. This is a lot of work by itself. How are you going >> to calculate it straight from Bezier outlines should concern you much >> more than memory issues. >> >> We can think about integrating it into FreeType ,once you have a >> standalone implementation. >> >> Alexei >> >>
