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Re: [ft-devel] CPAL interface


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] CPAL interface
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 11:11:42 +0200 (CEST)

>> I think that FreeType should provide a single, most basic solution
>> for convenience – it's really just a few lines of code.
> 
> Lets do it properly then.  Let's blend a layer or a glyph (in color)
> onto an arbitrary background image with gamma correction.  I just
> checked that finite difference approximation for gamma ramps works
> pretty good.

OK.  How would an API look like?

Note that blending onto an arbitrary background image is not necessary
IMHO.  I think the ultimate goal is to return color glyph images to
the client that have the same format as colored bitmaps from the
`CBDT' table.


    Werner

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