Re: [AL] TTF support in Allegro? Comments?

[Jeffrey D. <jd...@lo...>]

i think it would be a good idea to do some sort of vector font format, but ttf
is just
too complicated to do at runtime for a game, or complex gui. a ttf converter to
a
simpler font format would be a good idea (borland's chr fileformat maybe)

Nigel Taylor wrote:

> >So what do you think?  Does anyone have
> >any experience programming a TTF engine?  Would it be a waste of time?
>
> There is a convertor available, I'm at work at the mo so cant check but I
> think its called TTF2PC16.EXE or something which converts TTF to PCX files,
> you select the size you want and everything and off it goes, you can then
> use the PCX file to extract the font into something that Allegro already
> likes.
>
> I only ever use the Monochrome Fonts output option (cos I dont have the
> colours available) but I'm pretty sure it outputs Antialiased (Grey Scale
> over a given numer of colour indexes) as well, if you use text_out or
> whatever in Allegro with '-1' as the colour then thats you're TTF font isnt
> it??
>
> Cheers,
> Nigel...
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