Re: Anti-aliased font support library ready

["Greg Haerr" <greg censoft com>]

: Indeed, a completely flexible font rendering system that could render
: locally to pixbuf, or remotely via an X extension, or anything else
: would be nice. There's probably crossover here between this and the
: gnome-print architecture, though it would be nice to be able to
: properly antialias all font rendering, not just stuff in the
: gnome-canvas.

Over at the Microwindows Project, we've got both truetype and
adobe type 1 fonts rendering with antialiasing using freetype and
t1lib, respectively.   The architecture is such that new renderers
are easily added.  This is implemented in Microwindows' "engine"
layer, which is completely device-independent.  Since a goal
is to keep things simple, all rendering is done to pixmaps, which
are then blitted to the display.  (A small modification, in process,
would allow blitting with alpha-blending directly to the display).

Here's a truetype font rendered on a 30 degree slant:
ftp://microwindows.org/pub/microwindows/ScreenShots/Microwindows-truetype-sl
ant.gif

Anyway, this code might be able to be used as a codebase for
a flexible font rendering system for GTK+.  Since the engine
layer is fairly well abstracted, it could be lifted and rebuilt
on top of pixbufs without too much work, I think.

Regards,

Greg
chief maintainer, Microwindows Project
http://microwindows.org