[ft-devel] Freetype to Cairo - some solutions

[Donn]

I forward this the the list because it's an interesting solution. It's not a 
Python wrapper at all, but in a cloudy room no one would notice :)

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Subject: Re: [cairo] Freetype to Cairo - newb needs help
Date: Tuesday 23 October 2007 20:48
From: Bertram Felgenhauer <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden

Donn wrote:
> > Fixing those, it works:
>
> Ah, I see. A little dizzy, but glad it's getting further. Now the thing, as
> you mentioned, is casting the returned pointer, cairo_font_face_t, to a
> cairo.FontFace object ... I'm all out.

It's not exactly trivial. The code below works for me. I'm not sure how
brittle it is.

HTH,

Bertram

########################################################################
import cairo
import ctypes

# find DLLs
cairo_dll    = ctypes.CDLL("libcairo.so")
freetype_dll = ctypes.CDLL("libfreetype.so")
# this makes pycairo's internals available.
pycairo_dll  = ctypes.PyDLL(cairo._cairo.__file__)

# specify some types
cairo_dll.cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face.restype = ctypes.c_void_p
pycairo_dll.PycairoFontFace_FromFontFace.restype = ctypes.py_object

# initialise freetype
ft_lib = ctypes.c_void_p()
freetype_dll.FT_Init_FreeType(ctypes.byref(ft_lib))

# load font
ft_face = ctypes.c_void_p()
freetype_dll.FT_New_Face(ft_lib, "F.TTF", 0, ctypes.byref(ft_face))

# create cairo font face
cr_face_raw = cairo_dll.cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face(ft_face, 0)
cairo_dll.cairo_font_face_reference(cr_face_raw)

# now wrap it properly using pycairo
cr_face = pycairo_dll.PycairoFontFace_FromFontFace(cr_face_raw)

# the rest is pretty easy
surface = cairo.ImageSurface(cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 128, 128)

ctx = cairo.Context(surface)

ctx.set_font_face(cr_face)
ctx.set_font_size(30)
ctx.move_to(0, 44)
ctx.show_text("Hello,")

ctx.move_to(30, 74)
ctx.show_text("world!")

del ctx

surface.write_to_png("hello.png")
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