Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Using OpenJDK's FreeType support in a standard Sun JRE

2009-04-09 Thread Igor Nekrestyanov
Hello Daniel, It is not possible to simply copy part of openjdk to your application in order to add support for plugging freetype. It does require changes in the jdk libraries itself to support concept of pluggable rasterizers. In theory it might be possible to use your own rasterizer (and yo

[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Using OpenJDK's FreeType support in a standard Sun JRE

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dreibrodt
Hello. I'm working on the VLC Skin Editor project which provides a WYSIWYG editor for skin files for the VLC media player. As a part of the preview rendering I have to draw text in custom fonts on a Graphics2D context. So far I use the standard java.awt.font mechanisms to do so. But until JRE 6 j