Re: [ft-devel] FreeType Engine

[Mano Goharla'ee]

Hello

    Thank you for your email and quick response. I certainly am interested, and 
have a couple of more questions.
1- What compiler(s) would you say FreeType is compatible with? We are flexible 
enough to change compilers.
2- Aside from scaling fonts at run time, what other capabilities FreeType has?
3- Does the library have API calls to display texts, or draw graphical 
components, such as lines, boxes, filled boxes, etc?
4- Would the library work on any True Type Font?
5- What are the limits of how small or large the fonts can be scaled to?
6- What is the cost of getting the library?
7- Is there a demo you can share, or setup a meeting to see the capabilities of 
FreeType, or give us a temporary version of the library to play with?

Thank you so much for your time and considerations.

Mano

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:28 PM
To: Mano Goharla'ee
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] FreeType Engine


>     We are developing a medical device using an ARM based
>     architecture in an embedded environment.  We are using IAR
>     compiler with Micrium RTOS.  The device has a touch screen color
>     LCD display (TFT), and requires many different fonts and font
>     sizes for buttons labels, menus, etc.  Can we use the FreeType
>     engine in such an environment?  We would like to avoid keeping
>     tens of different font tables (bitmaps).  It would be nice to
>     have a single font which gets scaled correctly to other sizes.

Yes, FreeType has been specifically developed to work in memory-tight
environments.  Due to its modularity, you can strip off all components
you don't need, making its footprint very small.  The library is known
to work on ARM, however, I don't know whether it works out of the box
with your compiler and OS.  Patches are highly welcomed :-)


    Werner