Re: [ft-devel] supporting coloured bitmaps in FreeType

[Graham Asher]

I have asked my client whether they will consider allowing me to make 
their bitmap font format public-domain so that someone can write a clean 
FreeType driver for it. I have a driver for it but it's not 'clean': it 
depends on a huge amount of other proprietary stuff. We would also need 
a clean implementation of the tool to create the font from PNG images.

It's unlikely that they will say yes, but if you don't ask, you don't get.

Graham


On 15/08/2012 16:10, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > The idea is to add just two modes (for the moment - no need to be
> > over-elaborate) to FT_Pixel_Mode, for premultiplied ARGB, and the
> > same format using 8-bit indexes into a palette. These modes are
> > convenient when creating bitmap fonts from PNG images.  [...]
> This sounds great!  Are you going to implement this?
>
>
>      Werner
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