Re: [boost] GIL Review Comments

From: Malte Clasen (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-23 13:29:30

Tom Brinkman wrote:
> There are two things that I would absolutely must have if I was to
> completely switch over to GIL:
> 
> 1) freetype - for text rendering
> I've started to write a freetype class for GIL that may be of interest.
> I'll send that to Lubomir it on when I'm done.
> 
> 2) antaialias lines  - for smooth line rendering
> Anatialias lines are more difficult, particularly connecting  end points.  I
> wonder what lubomir's plans are for this important functionality.

As far as I understand GIL, this is not the focus of the library. 
However, you can rely on third-party libraries to do this, for example 
http://www.antigrain.com/ (<=2.4 uses a quite liberal license) and 
http://www.cairographics.org/ . Both can render to memory buffers which 
in turn can be used directly in GIL.

best regards,
Malte