Re: [Freetype] output fonts to bmp bitmap file?

[Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson]

There is a perl module that uses freetype and can render using freetype
(1 or 2) to bitmaps.  It's called Imager and its homepage is at:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~addi/perl/Imager/
(Can also download from http://search.cpan.org/author/ADDI/Imager-0.41/)

It does bmp, tiff, jpeg, gif etc.  There is some test code that comes
with the module in /t/t3*.t that might be useful, also the homepage
has some examples as well.

If you want simpler examples you can send mail directly to me.

-- Arnar.


On 9 Jan 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> TR> What is the easiest way to output rendered fonts to a bmp bitmap
> TR> file? Or any other standard graphics file format?
> 
> On
> 
>   http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/
> 
> you will find a very old utility called ``ttfgif''.  It's still using
> FreeType 1, but it should be easy to port.
> 
> TR> I don't know if it exists already but, one handy little function
> TR> in the freetype2 library to output rendered fonts to any standard
> TR> binary file format would be a nice hardware independent way of
> TR> viewing rendered fonts.
> 
> Short of reinventing the wheel, your suggestion would make FreeType
> dependent on one of libpng or libungif.  Not something that the
> embedded folks are likely to appreciate.
> 
>                                         Juliusz
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