Re: [ft] freetype on small embedded device

[Stuart Longland]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:06:55AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I did a search for this, but drew a blank.  I was wondering if anyone
> has tried embedding FreeType into a bare-iron firmware image (using
> newlib and FreeRTOS in my case)?

Well, I've managed to code up my own solution, using FreeType on a
desktop computer to pre-rasterise each of the glyphs, then writing some
code to draw the rastered glyphs to the screen.  I haven't done a lot of
testing, but early results are promising.

I have uploaded an early version of the rasteriser itself and the font
library that I've written thus far for interest; it is LGPL-2.1
licensed (with binary linking exception).

        http://www.longlandclan.yi.org/~stuartl/fontlib-0.0.1.tar.xz

Critique welcome.

Regards,
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