Re: [Freetype] outline

[Henry Maddocks]

Have a look at my openGL lib, FTGL...

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/

The class FTVectoriser handles decomposing outlines to points. It's 
quite a simple process once you get the hang of it. The tricky bit is 
clsoing the contours.
There is also a really good bezier curve function provided by a friend. 
This class handles cubic and conic in the same outline because I didn't 
realise they were mutually exclusive.

Although this lib is for openGL this class is pretty generic. You pass 
in a glyph and out comes an array of points.


Henry

On Tuesday, August 21, 2001, at 10:58  PM, Wallace Chigona wrote:

> The outline of a glyph is given in a combination or line segments and
> bezier curves.  Is there an option I can use to get the outline only in
> line segments?, alternatively is there a function to convert the curves
> to points?
>
> Is it possible to have conic and cubic bezier curves in one font?  If I
> get a bezier curve of one type in a glyph, say cubic bezier curve, would
> it be correct to assume that all curves would be cubic.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wallace
>
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