Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Text in linux

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@ro...>]

PyGame can apparently render text to bitmaps quite nicely (so can 
wxPython, for that matter).  I've never gone this route myself.

GLUT has a very limited set of fonts available (see the 
OpenGLContext/tests directory for a quicky sample of using that). 
 That's cross-platform, and generally available when PyOpenGL is.

Until/unless we get one of the "proper" font-rendering libraries 
wrapped, those are probably your best bets.

HTH,
Mike

Andrew Jones wrote:

> I'm fairly new to OpenGL and have been searching for something that 
> will show me how to display text, but all the tutorials I have been 
> able to find have been using windows fonts.  For example, the 
> documentation for rendering text using OpenGLContext 
> (http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/text.html) is only available 
> on Windows systems.  I need a method for displaying text which can be 
> used on both Linux and Windows platforms.  Could somebody point me in 
> the direction of the best way to do this?  Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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