Guys,
I'm really in a need of a Win32-compiled FreeType 2-compatible
application a la ftstrpnm that renders a text into an image file.
Even better, I'd like some simple Python (2.4) bindings that work
reliably (I tried the _imagingft library from PIL and it crashes on 2-3%
of the fonts). I
Adam Twardoch wrote:
Guys,
I'm really in a need of a Win32-compiled FreeType 2-compatible
application a la ftstrpnm that renders a text into an image file.
Even better, I'd like some simple Python (2.4) bindings that work
reliably (I tried the _imagingft library from PIL and it crashes on
I need to do some rasterization checks on several thousand fonts and
I need something that is fast and does not have an overhead of an
entire graphic subsystem.
In case you want to use FreeType's TT rasterizer please note that it
currently doesn't produce identical results to the Windows
About Python bindings for FreeType:
Do you want to help me to do it? Do you want that I end it and sell
you with an OpenSource license (that can permit to publish the
library like an open source project)?
In case this comes to a positive end we would be glad to add a
corresponding CVS
Jens,
I'm going to integrate your type1 patch
https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitemitem_id=4944
Do you have time to revisit your changes so that it applies cleanly to
the current CVS? May I also ask for a ChangeLog entry?
Werner
