Re: [GD-General] FreeType

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

> I'm not sure exactly where your problem is. Do the generated glyphs
> look bad themselves? Or do they look bad only when rendered on
> screen?

They look bad, period.  This is a 128x256 texture of Courier New 
rendered with anti-aliasing.

http://bookofhook.com/shittyfonts.png

It just looks grim.  Maybe I'mm doing something horrible (I'm using 
Pygame.font to render, which uses FreeType2).

> bb=3Dget_topic;f=3D3;t=3D009649 Look for Jon's (jwatte) posts, the truth
> is with him. ;)

Unfortunately there is no clean way in Python to call into Windows and 
do all GDI stuff and call back out unless I write that myself.  Which 
I'm not sure I'm eager to do on the off chance it does look better =3D)

That said, I'd still mightily consider it if it gets me away from this 
asstasticness I'm dealing with right now.

Also, I'm not quite sure what Jon was recommending in that thread -- 
every time a string needs to be rendered on screen, render it in its 
entirety into a texture?

Brian