Re: [GD-General] Scaling GUI graphics

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Jun 25, 2002 at 10:04 -0500, brian hook wrote:

> > What about using a vector format for the graphics as apposed to a
> > bitmap format ?
> 
> That's what I was thinking with the "render everything yourself" 
> option (i.e. use circle, line, spline, etc. primitives and render into 
> a bitmap yourself).  This isn't that bad, I suppose, but it does seem 
> to be a bit of extra work.

Note: you don't have to render into a bitmap -- you could render
directly using OpenGL/D3D.  Dunno if you're already assuming a 3D API
though.

> Is there a good open source library that can rasterize a TTF into a 
> bitmap?  I know of SDL_ttf, but I'm not sure how good it is.

FreeType (http://www.freetype.org) makes high quality output; it's
what XFree86 uses these days.  I bet it's what SDL_ttf uses, but I'm
not sure.

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Thatcher Ulrich
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