Re: fonts

["Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" <mandrake mandrake net>]

On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:00:48AM -0400, Gleef wrote:
> That's actually what I'm working on, but slowly.  I'm developing an
> outline font editor, and some good conversion between raster and outline
> fonts.  I was going to call the whole mess FOX (for FOnt eXchange,
> inspired by sox), but yet another C++ GUI widget toolkit has come out with
> that name, so I have to hunt for a new one.  I would think the world has
> enough C++ GUI widget toolkits.
> 
> No, it's not in CVS.  I'm don't want to put it there until I have at least
> the basic structure down, and life keeps interfering so I'm working very
> slowly.
> 

I'm going to suggest, at this point, two things.  
1) check out freetype (http://www.freetype.org)  Excellent truetype
   font rendering engine.
2) check out fnlib (available in gnome cvs in fnlib module)

if you want to see those things integrated, you can also check out the
version of enlightenment that's also currently sitting in the gnome cvs.

if you've got questions, ask raster, he's been piddling with it for a while
now.
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