[Freetype] Vector-only output request

[Adrian & Marnie Kole]

Hello,

 

First of all, I am new to FreeType but am grateful that folks such as yourselves are providing such useful software to the development community in such a selfless way--many kudos!

 

I have an application in mind for the library.  Unfortunately, it appears that the FreeType library is not suited for my purposes due to the lack of any ability to output only vectors.  You see, I have the need to convert a text string to outlines, outputting only vectors (lines)--curves already converted to line segments and 'holes' in glyphs separated from the actual glyph outlines.  I really have little need for getting bitmap information--I need vectors that can be taken and converted to a format compatible with polyline formats used by different applications.

 

It would really be nice if FreeType supported a function such as Glyph_to_vectors(), that allows for specifying a 'chord angle' or similar for specifying the granularity of which to break up complicated curves.  I would think that this would be useful not only to myself, but to many interested in converting glyph strings to primitive, simple-to-use outlines.

 

Does anyone know of any other tools (or FreeType add-ins perhaps) that could accomplish this?

 

Regards,

Adrian