Re: Rendering Pango fonts with DirectFB only

[Some Guy <teknosoul gmail com>]

This is what I ended up doing.  I see oddities with it in that the fonts being drawn are quite large compared to those being drawn when using directfb's drawString method.  I'm definitely loading the correct font family.

The way I draw the text currently is by just rendering to a directfb scratch surface and then blitting that to my primary display surface.  I do the text rendering all within local space, so theres no transform matrix or anything I need to apply - its when I blit tot he primary surface that I apply transforms, but that code behaves as if I'm blitting an image with some transform.

Any thoughts on why my fonts might be larger than expected?

Thanks,

sb

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:

On 01/06/2010 11:24 AM, Some Guy wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a package out there that allows pango
layouts to render to a DFB Surface without the use of GTK or Cairo.  DFB
already knows how to draw FT2 fonts, but the user API is lacking and
only has a DrawString method.

Does anybody know of a library that pulls in Pango for the font layout
but uses DFB as the renderer?  I saw there's some package out there
called pango-directfb, but I don't see anything about it on the pango
site or in the git tree.

If you can get cairo-directfb working, you can then simply use pangocairo.

behdad

Thanks,

sb