On 4/13/07, Tom Brinkman <reportbase@gmail.com> wrote:
I've written a few freetype wrappers over the years. I've since converted it to use boost::gil and will be submiting it to GIL graphics library developers as an extension.
My 2p: Rendering text is quite a hard problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the approach you sketch assumes that there is a one-to-one mapping of characters to glyphs. This is fairly restrictive for English (e.g. no ligatures are possible); it is remarkably ungeneralisable to other languages. Most languages, even if written in the Latin script, require more sophisticated processing. I imagine it may be a better approach to pass a string of (Unicode?) characters to a function that renders them all at once. Cheers, Rogier