Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

2010-01-31 Thread Dave Calkins
I checked the FreeTypeGL source and it looks like its passing in the below values. For FT_Load_Glyph, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING | FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP For FT_Render_Glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL Experimenting with these hasn't seemed to have any effect on the amount of smoothing (whether

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

2010-01-31 Thread Tor Andersson
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Dave Calkins d...@kinematics.com wrote: I checked the FreeTypeGL source and it looks like its passing in the below values.    For FT_Load_Glyph, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING | FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP    For FT_Render_Glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL Experimenting with these

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

2010-01-31 Thread Dave Calkins
Still haven't found the answer to this. However, if I'm correct in saying that FreeType is generating a grayscale rendering of the glyph using anti-aliasing, then is there some way to control how much anti-aliasing FreeType applies when its rendering the glyph? No. It's either

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

2010-01-31 Thread Tor Andersson
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Dave Calkins d...@kinematics.com wrote: Still haven't found the answer to this.  However, if I'm correct in saying that FreeType is generating a grayscale rendering of the glyph using anti-aliasing, then is there some way to control how much anti-aliasing

Re: [ft] anti-aliasing question

2010-01-31 Thread Dave Calkins
On a related note, do I run into patent/license issues as a result of hinting? I recall reading that on the FreeType site and based on that description am thinking that using the hinting might actually mean I need to secure a license. At what point, in regards to the hinting in FreeType do