Re: looking for support

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I know ffmpeg can draw a text string or text from a specified file
> on top of a video, using the libfreetype library.  Can you tell me
> libfreetype how to make fonts bold, slanted, underlined.

In general you should use a higher-level library than FreeType to do
that, for example 'pango'.

FreeType has only some very limited support for emboldening and
slanting (and no support for underlining at all); have a look at the
FreeType demo programs like 'ftview' for more details.


    Werner