Re: alpha for text?

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

John Cupitt wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net> wrote:
> > Has anyone rendered text with alpha channel (i.e. semitransparent text)
> > in GDK framework?  So far my best solution is to render black on white
> > to a GdkImage, get it back in a GdkPixbuf and then add color/transparency
> > manually.  Not actually too difficult, but I want to ask in case somebody
> > can come up with something better.
>
> You can use pangoft2 to render text on the client side and thereby
> avoid shipping images back from the server. Not much neater, but quite
> a bit quicker.

Can I have a little more information here, please?  I thought GtkImage was
client side.  And if not, is your approach portable all the way back to
GTK+ 2.0?

Paul