Nikhil, Have you tried the new FreeType-2–based font module? It's called pygame.freetype and it's not in the Pygame 1.9.1 release. Here are resources that probably aren't blocked by your school's firewall:
Code: http://svn.seul.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/freetype/?root=PyGame Documentation: http://svn.seul.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/freetype.doc?revision=2617&root=PyGame Builds: http://thorbrian..com/pygame/builds.php There's still room for improving the pygame.freetype module (but perhaps not enough rscope for a GSOC project). I suspect that the SDL_ttf-based pygame.font will be completely replaced by pygame.freetype at some time in the future. Jason ----- Original Message ---- From: nikwin <murthyn...@gmail.com> To: pygame-users@seul.org Sent: Sat, January 30, 2010 1:08:32 PM Subject: [pygame] Working on Improving Font Support for GSOC Hello, I would like to work on improving the font support of pygame for GSOC. Could someone tell me what are the steps I should take to achieve this, and what I can do to start work? Unfortunately, my college has a very restrictive firewall, and so the amount of work I can do before summer is limited, and I cannot join IRC, but I would like to know what is doable. Thank you, Nikhil Murthy