Andreas Beck wrote:
> The idea would be to make a LibGfont, probably based on some existing font
> rendering engine. Unfortunately I have never seen someone implementing it.
what's the problem with freetype ? It produces glyph pixmaps, either bitmaps
or (anti aliased) pixmaps. You even can draw outlines with it (useful for
larger point sizes). All you need is map it to the screen. Berlin uses this
strategy and we are quite happy with it.
> I recently thought about it again, when someone mentioned Freetype2 lib, but
> FT2 didn't compile for me, so I decided to wait for that to happen.
Right, Freetype2 is the next thing to wait for. It's a complete redisign.
Very powerful. It not only supports TrueType (as the 1.x series did) but also
Type1 and OpenType and possibly others.
Freetype 1.3 is the current 'old' API which works well. It should compile on
anything from Unix over windows to Mac.
Regards, Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
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