On Thu Aug 24 10:38:39 2000, prikryl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I was wondering how the text support shall be included in the OIV in a
> most natural way ... it seems to me that the ideal candidate would
> really be the freetype library (and possible freetype-stubs for
Yes, this has been brought up before. If anyone has started to work on this,
please post a note here so there's no duplication of effort.
> windows). Moreover, there exists a library for rendering TrueType
> fonts using FreeType (http://gltt.sourceforge.net/) that probably
> does a big part of what is needed for rendering text in Inventor.
I don't think GLTT is necessary because Open Inventor already does its own
rendering via OpenGL and handles things like extrusions and bevels.
> Any other ideas? What about libFL?
libFL is only available as an archive/DSO for IRIX, Linux, and Solaris.
Additional platforms may be included later, but only as a temporary solution.
> -- jan
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Jonathan Lim _ Silicon Graphics _ Mountain View
GPS Graphics Computer Systems CA, USA
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