Hi, I'm using Freetype 2 in order to render fonts in opengl in gtk (with gtkglarea), the whole thing in C. It's For the Opengl Version of the Browser/Editor of the W3C, called Amaya, which is now has some Internationalization (Polish, Hebrew, Russian, Greek even with bidirectional writings ). Opengl is used to get enough performance so that we can, in the future, render animated SVG. Cvs version now works pretty well, even in software mode (aka Mesa without DRI) and Beta version will be distributed at the end of the month.
I use directly XFT library to get fontname, using pattern matching (I was using XLFD before.). (You can see Xft-related code used at => http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Amaya/thotlib/dialogue/fontserver.c and http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Amaya/thotlib/dialogue/openglfont.c for freetype 2 to opengl antialiased bitmap rendering) BUT As I've tested it on Mandrake, Debian (testing for xfree 4), I didn't manage to always get good fonts : Sometimes (mostly on Debian), I can't get anything else than "courrier"...sometimes I get all but "courrier" (mostly on Mandrake) !! Sonetimes I can get i18n fonts (greek, hebrew...), somtimes not, depending on which distribution !!! We also distribute a GTK version that works with the old XLFD system, and this version can get the fonts on those system !! I need to write a general simple procedure that will let people use Amaya with good fonts... or perhaps there is a sort of master 'XftConfig' that will make server response always good, that I can distribute with Amaya ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Paul Cheyrou-Lagreze INRIA Rhone-alpes, FRANCE W3C Amaya Team http://www.w3.org/Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/cvs.html http://www.w3.org/Amaya/AmayaGL.htm ps : please excuse my poor english from France ! _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
