Re: [ft] ftstrpnm for FreeType 2 or simple Python bindings? :)

[Michele Petrazzo]

Adam Twardoch wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I'm really in a need of a Win32-compiled FreeType 2-compatible 
> application a la ftstrpnm that renders a text into an image file.
>
> Even better, I'd like some simple Python (2.4) bindings that work 
> reliably (I tried the _imagingft library from PIL and it crashes on 
> 2-3% of the fonts).

May be ask for that problems on the Image-sig ml would be better, I
think. There you can find the PIL developer.

> I need to do some rasterization checks on several thousand fonts and 
> I need something that is fast and does not have an overhead of an 
> entire graphic subsystem.
>
> As I said, my preferred environment would be Python 2.4 on Windows, 
> though ideally, it should also work on Python 2.4 on Linux.

Yes, it would.

> Please contact me off-list at address@hidden and tell me how much 
> such a little program/library might cost, or if you know a developer 
> who would be willing to write such a tool.

I'm a python / ctypes (you know?) developer, and I already wrote some
.so/.dll wrappers like freeimagepy (freeimage.sf.net ->
freeimagepy.sf.net) and I'm ending filtersdllpy (filters.sf.net -> ?
[may be filtersdllpy.sf.net]). I have already started "freetypepy", but
not ended.
Do you want to help me to do it? Do you want that I end it and sell you
with an OpenSource license (that can permit to publish the library like
an open source project)?

> Regards, Adam Twardoch

Bye,
Michele Petrazzo
Italy

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