On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:01:12 -0800 Greg Denton <[email protected]> wrote:
| You did not provide any information about the the actual API for | drawing UTF-8 strings. Is there sample code you could point to? | | Also, the TrueType fonts that I have experimented with are very blurry | at font sizes 10pt or less. Only bit mapped fonts work well enough. | The TTF fonts are handled using the FreeType Library. But you are right they have problems with small pixel sizes. The Arial font however was designed with displays in mind, as was many of the other TTF fonts in Linux and MacOSX. However as for using the X11 bitmap fonts. I can't help you much as I have had little success with them within IM. I do know I relies on an X server being present to access the X window bitmap fonts, so it may not be suitable for batch or web app processing where a X server is not available for it to use (there are ways around that though, which I have used for other applications). I would also be very weary of the font IM uses as when it fails to find a font it often just quietly substitutes a default font on failure. Please keep me informed as to your findings however as this is an area that I am interested in, and should write up in IM Examples. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book (n): A non-volitile, randomly accessed, analog memory store, no electricity or digital cognizance. -- David Brin, ``Infinity's Shore'' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
