Re: [Speed-dreams-devel] Re : Towards a from far better font system ?

[<jpm...@fr...>]

Hi, Xavier, Eckhard and all.

>> as far i renember Brian talked about the SDL lib and the existing
>> Truetype of it support.
>> Did this not work?

> for SDL support TTF, we have to add SDL_TTF lib and add API to use.

The issues I see with SDL_TTF :
- SDL_TTF is only a wrapper library on top of the Free Type lib itself,
- so we'd have 2 new dependencies (in place of 1)
- and it's API is very simple and limited ... to TTF fonts
  (whereas Free Type is not, at least 10 more font formats supported),

On the other hand, SDL_ttf freely offers shading and blending ...
but the code samples I got for direct use of Free Type 2 shows it also ...

In my opinion, at first glance, SDL_ttf is not that easier to use
when compared to Free Type ... and it does less about font formats support.

But I may have missed something ...

Anyway, whatever the library / API we may choose, one important thing
to look at is the on-screen rendering quality (and secondly sugar features if needed) ...

For this, I don't know anything and don't feel confortable with ...

How could we test this, outside of SD, through Free Type tools or so ?

Cheers,

Jean-Philippe.