Re: font rendering

[Nathan Hurst]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Allen Lin wrote:

> Do you know offhand, if the rendering output of the font code will be
> 
> a. a monochrome pixel map (one bit per pixel)
> b. a color pixel map at 8, 16, or 32 bits per pixel (BPP)
> c. if 16 bpp, will it be in 5-5-5 format or 5-6-5 format? (the former is
> preferable)

The code only generates 8bpp greyscale.

from memory it is also 'upsidedown', i.e. the value represents the
blackness of the pixel.  To transform to an rgb colour:

k = *pixelptr;
i = 255 - k;
r = (base_red*i)>>8;
g = (base_green*i)>>8;
b = (base_blue*i)>>8;

njh