> Question 1: Possible to render glyphs directly into te one big bitmap ?
If you are ready to manage the buffer yourselves and carefully track the pen coordinates for proper layout, you might be able to use FT_Outline_Render with FT_RASTER_FLAG_DIRECT and some callback function. https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-outline_processing.html#ft_outline_render This is what a lot of games use when they do not want to rely on a heavy layout engine like Cairo. Alexei
