Re: Font Quality Windows Vista64

[Jeremy Moles <jeremy emperorlinux com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 15:48 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/1/29 Jeremy Moles <jeremy emperorlinux com>:
> > Hello all! I'm writing a cross platform OpenGL application that uses
> > Pangocairo to render fonts. In Linux, the results I get are
> > superb--arguably better than anything else out in a 3D application. :) I
> > couldn't happier.
> 
> What kind of program is this - I'm hoping to see a font editor based
> on similar libraries... Will your program be free software? :-)

The software is an LGPL'd "plugin" for OpenSceneGraph. It renders
high-quality (at least on Linux), 2D fonts by rendering them to an
OpenGL texture and hooking into Pango's renderer backend to position and
setup the quads for each glyph.

> Cheers,
> Dave
>