Re: [ft] Thick contours

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 07:35 AM 3/30/2005, Laurent Auneau wrote:
> As the
> attached screenshot shows, I’d like to render “outlined” fonts. On the
> left, this is the Photoshop version, on the right this is mine.
> I don’t know how Photoshop does, but my method is quite simple:
> - I render 4 times in black, with a 1 pixel offset in X and Y -> it
> gives (x+1, y+1), then (x-1, y+1), then (x-1, y-1), and finally (x+1,
> y-1) 
> - Then I render in white on top of that on location (x, y)

        

Seems like
a LOT of work.

        

What I do
for outlined text, is to get the vectors of the glyph and then plot
them.  This same method is used by a number of FT clients, including
Xpdf, ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick.


Leonard

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