Re: How To Draw Bitmaps From FreeType?

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:30:59 -1000
Eric Mader <emader icu-project org> wrote:

> I'm also thinking about creating a GdkPixbuf with a depth of 24 and 
> filling it by hand from the FreeType bitmap by copying the 8 bit pixel 
> value into all three components of the pixbuf. Will that work?

Eric,

Did you consider Cairo? It's not too difficult to use, and produces a
variety of output formats - both bitmap (PNG) and vector. It was
easier to use than the pixmap/pixbuf functions.

John