Re: [GD-General] FreeType

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

>The big problem is that
>Truetype fonts are outline fonts, so while they scale nicely,=
 it
>isn't as easy to get nice colors, textures, and shading on the=
 fonts
>as you can with a bitmapped font.

That's a good point, but "easy" really depends on who you're=
 talking 
to.  Generating those effects programmatically would be fairly=
 easy 
to do, albeit not quite as nicely as an artist could do, but at=
 the 
same time artists aren't bogged down with hand drawn fonts at 
multiple resolutions with different effects, etc.

Brian