I remember a discussion about making the rasterizer flexible with respect to the pixmap format it draws to. Is it possible or do you have plans to support to draw to pixmaps with (more or less) arbitrary pixel formats ? I'm interested into this as we use freetype for the text rendering in berlin, and we'd like to avoid any unnecessary crossblits. There's currently a little discussion in the GGI project about a font extension library. I proposed that the best thing to do would be to provide a 'GGI backend' for freetype's rasterizer. What do you think about that ? Regards, Stefan PS: the 'GGI backend' would simply be a rasterizer drawing into a 'GGI visual', i.e. a pixmap with a specific pixel format. Also, a framwork like GGI might be a good place to hook caching strategies into, as it has knowledge of the underlaying h/w, i.e. it could use special video memory for glyph caches. _______________________________________________________ Stefan Seefeld Departement de Physique Universite de Montreal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...