[PyOpenGL-Users] [ pyopengl-Feature Requests-452946 ] Font modules

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Feature Requests item #452946, was opened at 2001-08-19 08:00
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Category: new module
Group: v2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Tarn Weisner Burton (twburton)
Assigned to: Tarn Weisner Burton (twburton)
Summary: Font modules

Initial Comment:
Create font modules.  Targets: bitmap + outline.  It 
would be nice if out lines could be sent to GLE

methods:

1) wrap GLTT (see http://gltt.sf.net) -> under GPL!  
Also doesn't interface with GLE
2) Use PyFT to create own variant of GLTT.  Problem 
with this is that PyFT is under GPL, even though 
Freetype can be used with either BSD/GPL.  Also PyFT 
is Freetype1 not Freetype2.
3) Wrap Freetype2 and write own python code.
4) write own C version of GLTT that uses Freetype.
5) Use python FontTools? (No rasterizer)
6) expose platform specific bitmap font capabilities 
through WGL, AGL, GLX, etc.  or come up with common 
call.

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>Comment By: Mike C. Fletcher (mcfletch)
Date: 2002-01-17 01:02

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Another possible option:
http://oglft.sourceforge.net/ -- LGPL, (apparently) same
basic functionality as GLTT, based on FreeType2.  Claims to
be 0.0 status, but has what looks to be fairly close to a
completed OGLFT.CPP (haven't tested it's functionality, just
browsed the code).  Note that it's C++, not C, code.  By the
look of it, could be its own module, rather than being part
of the base PyOpenGL module (especially given the license),
as it's interactions are all self-contained (you pass in
strings, booleans, etceteras, there's no arrays/callbacks).
 Has all the bells+whistles you'd want (multiple 2D and 3D
formats, extrusions with GLE, use of truetype, etceteras).

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