generic scanline-converter / rasteriser

[Aleksandr Koltsoff]

Hi

first of all, thanks for a great font-engine, been using it for couple
of years now and it works like a charm (haven't tried the 2.x).

Anyway, question: I need to convert vector data (lines, curves, etc)
into a bitmap and was thinking that it would be needless to re-invent
the wheel once again. Soo, any opinions on how difficult it would be to
use the ft-scanline-converted and possible the autohinter in a totally
separate project?

I'd also be using ft for font-rendering, so basically would it be
possible to make some interface to the rasterizer or something like
that? If this sounds very stupid, please tell me where I err. I have not
been able to find a good-quality rasterizer yet (libxmi is *cough* not
quite what I need :-). Mainly I'd like to have antialiasing, filled
shapes bounded by lines and curves (beziers or cubics).

And anyway it would be cool to have a GPL generic rasterizing engine for
other projects as well.

Please CC replies if possible.

Aleksandr Koltsoff
sys/net/sec-admin