Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] My recent experiments in text...

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@ro...>]

Just in case anyone is interested, I am working on a spike test using 
Fonttools to extract font outlines directly from .ttf files to use in 
creating polygonal fonts.  Fonttools is primarily written in Python, 
with a tiny C module to accelerate a few parts (with a python backup if 
that's not available).  So far have the ability to extract the glyph 
outlines and dump the results to NURBs curves for preliminary display.

Haven't yet figured out how to get the on/off contour information 
transferred, which results in somewhat "lumpy" fonts when you get close 
(ideas welcome). Still working on extracting the metrics (line height, 
advance width/glyph), and then will look at doing polygonalisation.

Enjoy yourselves,
Mike

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

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> The WGL-based polygonal text, is still there, haven't come up with a 
> good cross platform solution for that yet.

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  Mike C. Fletcher
  Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
  http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/