Re: [Freetype] Getting black bitmaps - why?

[Paul Miller]

> This is very frustrating. I've pretty much duplicated most of what the 
> ftgl library does to make texture-based glyphs, but all I get is black 
> bitmaps for the characters. Here is basically what I'm doing (after 
> opening the face):

Well, I poked around further and discovered that if I use FT_Render_Glyph() 
before FT_Get_Glyph(), instead of calling FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap, it works. I 
don't know why the code in ftgl would work and mine doesn't, but at least 
it works now.



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