Re: Pango usage

[Dov Grobgeld <dov imagic weizmann ac il>]

Hi Andras,

Have a look at my program paps at:

   http://imagic.weizmann.ac.ail/~dov/freesw/paps

It shows you how to call pango and freetype2 to extract the glyph
outlines. In my case, I then turn them into postscript curves, but
it should be trivial to change the output to any other format of
your choice.

Regards,
Dov

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:47:22PM +0100, Major A wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently discovered Pango and I think it might be just what I've
> been looking for. I'm new to this list so please excuse me if this is
> the wrong place to ask or this question has popped up before.
> 
> I'm looking for a library that can convert text into a bunch of glyph
> outlines. The text is in UTF-8, and the library should give me an
> array/list/whatever which contains all glyph outlines of the rendered
> text. (The outlines are going to be used for creating polygons for
> rendering with OpenGL, i.e. I'm not interested in pixelized
> rendering.) I think Pango can do it, but the question is: how.
> 
> I've taken a brief look at the Pango docs and don't quite know where
> to start. Could anyone give me an idea of what steps are involved and
> if Pango is the right thing to use?
> 
> Please Cc: the reply as I'm not subscribed.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
>   Andras
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