Re: [ft] Thick contours

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:33 AM 3/30/2005, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> I don't think that'd help in this case... I believe Laurent wants
> a font-with-an-outline, not the outline of the font

        What's the difference?

        A glyph is a shape that can either be filled (or the normal 
operation for FT), stroked (what Laurent appears to be trying to achieve) 
or both.


> (not to mention that I'm quite dubious that looping through the same
> trivial rasterization code five times [applying it in hardware,
> even] is 'a LOT of work' compared with tesselating a vector font
> outline into GL primitives and then taking a second different pass
> for a thickened outline including mitres etc).

        I agree - which is why you can skip the multiple rasterization & 
blitting - and JUST go with vector outlines.


> But being able to extract the vector outline information for a font
> sounds pretty useful in general.  Which part of the FT docs cover
> this?

        FT_Outline_Decompose()


Leonard

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