Hi to all FreeTypers after a long silence on my part - too much to do in
CartoType.
I have a simple proposal that would enable FreeType to support fonts
which can create coloured glyphs. It is primarily intended for bitmap
font formats used for emojis, emoticons and the like.
I have an
The idea is to add just two modes (for the moment - no need to be
over-elaborate) to FT_Pixel_Mode, for premultiplied ARGB, and the
same format using 8-bit indexes into a palette. These modes are
convenient when creating bitmap fonts from PNG images. [...]
This sounds great! Are you going
On 08/15/2012 11:10 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
The idea is to add just two modes (for the moment - no need to be
over-elaborate) to FT_Pixel_Mode, for premultiplied ARGB, and the
same format using 8-bit indexes into a palette. These modes are
convenient when creating bitmap fonts from PNG
Well, what I'm suggesting is just adding these constants, which is a 5
minute patch. I'm not allowed to release my client's bitmap font format
(which I invented) into the wild. It would be nice to have a standard
coloured-bitmap font format but it would probably not be a good idea for
me to
I have asked my client whether they will consider allowing me to make
their bitmap font format public-domain so that someone can write a clean
FreeType driver for it. I have a driver for it but it's not 'clean': it
depends on a huge amount of other proprietary stuff. We would also need
a clean
