Re: [ft] Using SVG Font Glyph Data In FreeType

[Tom Bishop, Wenlin Institute]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Andy Kellett wrote:

> Hi, Tom
> 
> Thank-you for your example. A small piece of code speaks a thousand words :) 
> Im able to better make sense of that command now I have seen your example.

Good!

> I'm guessing that GRID_SIZE is just a numeric value to depict a 
> largest-possible grid size to work with, also im not sure what your define of 
> FT_HALF_PIXEL refers to.

#define GRID_SIZE 128 /* assuming coordinates vary between 0.0 and 128.0; you 
may need a different value */

#define FT_HALF_PIXEL 32L /* a whole pixel is 64 */

> I agree with your statement about not re-writing all of SVG, seeing as 99% of 
> what I need is the display of text for these silly catalogue articles, 
> besides a couple of boxes and shapes, theres nothing else used from the SVG 
> standard. Thank-you.

Good luck!

Tom

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