Re: [GD-Windows] Windows true type fonts

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Have you checked out FreeType, at http://www.freetype.org/ ?

It is a open source TrueType rasterizer, and it has been used in several=20
commercial games (Warcraft 3 comes to mind) so I don't think there are=20
legal issues.

The advantage of doing this is that you can generate optimized bitmaps on=20
the fly, depending on your screen resolution, rather than only doing so for=
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a limited set of precomputed resolutions and scaling them up.

-- Mark

At 02:17 AM 3/25/2004, Mike Wuetherick wrote:
>sounds like a rather over-zealous legal department ;}
>
>gawd help you if you run an apache webserver for your website, or...a DNS=
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>server maybe ;P
>
>lol anyways, it's there if it's useful, sounds like you have something=20
>that does the same thing anyways.
>
>on a semi-related there is a program called X-Fonter that lets you browse=
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>fonts without installing them, not sure how they do that...might be=20
>something useful anyways, it's the only program that i've found that lets=
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>you do that.
>
>cheers
>mike w
>www.gekidodesigns.com
>
>Jacob Turner (Core Design Ltd) wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>Thanks for the suggestions.  AddFontResource(), RemoveFontResource()
>>is working fine for us.
>>We do already have a tool to preprocess TTF fonts into a TGA for use
>>in game rendering of fonts on all platforms.  We just wanted to make
>>it work by being given the TTF as an input file rather than having to
>>install the font on every machine that needs to the preprocess step.
>>The preprocess step is part of our automated tool chain so in theory
>>can be run on any machine in the building.
>>Thanks Mike I will check out the open source engine stuff.  But
>>recentally our legal people came and talked to us and after that
>>discussion it seems it is easier for us to write it all ourselves.
>>If we use any external code/tools then we have to ask the legal
>>people about before hand, which means it usually quicker to write the
>>code/tools ourselves, arrggghghghgh.
>>Thanks
>>Jake
>>
>>>-----Original Message----- From:
>>>gam...@li...=20
>>>[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf
>>>Of Mike Wuetherick Sent: 24 March 2004 23:16 To:
>>>gam...@li... Subject: Re:
>>>[GD-Windows] Windows true type fonts
>>>
>>>i think i misunderstood - you are looking to do the conversion on
>>>the fly?  this tool is for just converting them to images, but you
>>>  should/might be able to use some of the ideas to do the same on
>>>the fly?
>>>mike w www.gekidodesigns.com
>>>Mike Wuetherick wrote:
>>>
>>>>we already have a tool that will convert a truetype image
>>>into a bitmap
>>>
>>>>with coordinate data image that can be read by the game to
>>>break the
>>>
>>>>single image into individual letters.
>>>>the game engine is open-source, so you can grab what you
>>>need/want from
>>>
>>>>it ;}
>>>>www.realityfactory.ca
>>>>cheers mike w www.gekidodesigns.com
>>>>
>>>>Jacob Turner (Core Design Ltd) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Writing a tool to output true type fonts as images for use
>>>in game.
>>>
>>>>>All is fine the last thing I would like to do is give the
>>>true type
>>>
>>>>>font file as an input to the tool rather than having to
>>>install the
>>>
>>>>>true type font into the system "fonts" directory.  So is there
>>>>>a windows way of opening a true type font and then using it
>>>via GDI or
>>>
>>>>>GDIplus drawing commands ?
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Jake
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