I've made a basic first crack at this.
Thanks to your examples, it was really easy to get basic text rendering
with matplotlib's Agg backend (the other backends will need to be
updated accordingly, and they may be more involved since they actually
need to extract curves). I've made an SVN branch for this here: (I
know, I know, git would make this easier, but afaik we're not quite
there yet...)
https://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/ctypes_freetype
This doesn't use the Agg tricks rendering (finer grained hinting in the
horizontal direction etc.) so it's a little lower quality than
matplotlib trunk right now. However, your agg-tricks.py example
certainly shows the way forward to making that work. I've tried to
localise all of the higher-level stuff in freetype_util.py (in
matplotlib) to make this easier. It may also make sense to put this
kind of higher-level (but extremely common) functionality in freetype-py
itself.
The next stumbling block to removing the existing wrapper is the
FT_Get_Sfnt_Name API which doesn't seem to be in your ctypes wrappers.
This is used to extract metadata about the fonts and build the font
cache table etc. Hopefully it's simple to add this?
Mike
On 02/01/2011 10:53 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
Hi all,
I've bound (part of) the high-level API of freetype using ctypes.
I don't know if it might be useful for matplotib text rendering but
just in case:
http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
Nicolas
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