Re: [Freetype] Contours and scaling

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I would like to use FreeType to render TrueType and MetaFont text in my
> vector graphics engine.
>
> To do this I either need adaptively subdivided contours which are
> continuously scalable (i.e. no pixel hinting or integer round-off)
> or I need to get hold of the contours as lists of implicit curves
> (Bezier's, I assume) so that I can feed them into my own code.

The code for that it rather deeply buried into FreeType...

> I don't want to use the FreeType rasterizer as I need to apply my
> own fill types and stroke and fill the contours.

But this is the very thing what FreeType is all about!

> Is it theoretically possible to do this using FreeType?

Theoretically yes, I think, but probably it's not optimal.


    Werner