Re: generic scanline-converter / rasteriser

[Just van Rossum]

At 1:24 PM +0300 31-07-2000, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
>Anyway, question: I need to convert vector data (lines, curves, etc)
>into a bitmap and was thinking that it would be needless to re-invent
>the wheel once again. Soo, any opinions on how difficult it would be to
>use the ft-scanline-converted and possible the autohinter in a totally
>separate project?

Not difficult at all: it's all completely independent code, thanks to the
incredible foresight of David Turner... I have succesfully used the scan
converter separately, and somewhere this year I will try to use the
autohinter separately. The former was _real_ easy, the latter I don't know
yet, but knowing David's style, I can't be too hard.

>I'd also be using ft for font-rendering, so basically would it be
>possible to make some interface to the rasterizer or something like
>that? If this sounds very stupid, please tell me where I err. I have not
>been able to find a good-quality rasterizer yet (libxmi is *cough* not
>quite what I need :-). Mainly I'd like to have antialiasing, filled
>shapes bounded by lines and curves (beziers or cubics).

LibArt is another alternative; it looks pretty impressive.

Just