Re: [ft] How to render system fonts with FreeType 2.5.0 in Mac OS X Lion?

[suzuki toshiya]

I don't think the font rasterizer in Mac OS X is not exactly same with
FreeType, although some part of FreeType might be used. And, the genuine
font rasterizer in Mac OS X might be compiled in proprietary frameworks
of it.

In addition, I'm afraid that the latest (?) framework of font rasterizer
and text layout in Mac OS X, CoreText, is quite huge framework in comparison
with GDI's font rasterizer DLL, and it might be difficult to write a
library overriding all features of CoreText.

Anyway, if there is ongoing project (and anybody has heard of it), I'm
interested in :-)

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 07/18/2013 01:31 PM, Alexander Gunnarson wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I'm new here, so I'm still exploring exactly what FreeType is and what it's 
> currently good for.
> My main thing right now is that I'd like to replace the OS X default font 
> renderer (which I suppose is an earlier version of FreeType anyway) with 
> FreeType 2.5.0, which uses the Adobe CFF technology. I did a similar thing in 
> Windows already with a Google Code project (gdipp): 
> http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/ . The results were really quite amazing - a 
> lot easier on the eyes than the ClearType it comes with.
> 
> Anyone know how to do what I'm proposing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
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