On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 06:30:56 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I wish to build freetype2 library that never does antialiasing on
> >>> it's output whatever application calls.
> >>
> >> Really? Only B/W rendering? This looks very ugly for most modern
> >> fonts.
> >>
> >>> But I can't see simple switch for that elsewhere. Is it
> >>> possible?
> >>
> >> No, it's not possible. There is no switch to do that. You would
> >> have to patch the sources, namely (a) to disable the AA rasterizer,
> >> and (b) to always use the `FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO' glyph loading
> >> flag.
> >
> > Maybe Anatoly's output medium is an LED screen :)
>
> Fair point. Anyways, there is no option for that, and I won't add
> one. The patch I mentioned would be a small, namely to add the
> lines
>
> if ( load_flags & FT_LOAD_RENDER )
> {
> load_flags &= 0xFFF0FFFFL; /* unset rendering modes */
> load_flags |= FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO;
> }
>
> near the beginning of `FT_Load_Glyph', and
>
> render_mode = FT_RENDER_MODE_MONO;
>
> near the beginning of `FT_Render_Glyph' (untested). Maybe there are
> more spots to handle in the source code; I haven't checked this
> thoroughly.
>
>
> Werner
Thank you, this works!
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