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 java.awt.font still does not support all OpenType fonts. This will be fixed in JRE 7 I know, but also in antialiasing etc. the java.awt.font system has of course differences to the way VLC displays them, as it uses libfreetype. So I found that in OpenJDK there is an interface to libfreetype which sounds perfectly fit for my problem. But I want to leave the program compatible with standard Sun JREs. So my question is what I would have to do, which classes to copy etc. , to integrate FreeType support from OpenJDK into my Java application. Your help is very much appreciated, Daniel Dreibrodt
