RE: [GD-General] FreeType

[Ignacio C. <ica...@nv...>]

Brian,

I think that the issues you are seen could be related to the freetype =
autohinter. I got much better looking results with the patented bytecode =
hinter. However, that was some time ago and since then I've heard that =
the autohinter has become much better and produces comparable results =
now.

If you are going to generate strings or words on the fly using the =
autohinter might not be an option, but if you dynamically link freetype =
you just leave that up to the user.

--
Ignacio Casta=F1o
ica...@nv...=20

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> Behalf Of Brian Hook
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [GD-General] FreeType
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> > I believe the problem you are seeing is that the fonts are small
> > _and_ antialiased.=20
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> Well, yeah.  But un-antialiased and they look bad, just in a=20
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> way =3D)
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> I ended up hacking a simple Python package that lets me render a=20
> string in a given font to a buffer, which I can then insert into a=20
> texture.  I don't have the higher level string caching in place, but=20
> so far the results are very promising in terms of quality. =20
> The API is=20
> pretty brute force simple:
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> import winfont
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> f =3D winfont.createfont( 'Courier New', height=3D16,italic=3DTrue)
> buf,w,h =3D f.render('Hello world!',(255,255,255),(64,64,64))
> surf =3D pygame.image.fromstring( buf, w, h, "RGBX", True )
> pygame.image.save( surf, 'test.tga')
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> I'll worry about the string caching and subtex modifications next and=20
> see if this is all everyone claims it is =3D)
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> Brian
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