Re: [Devel] Font - stroke color

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 12:21 AM 1/21/2002 +0100, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:
> i'm one of the authors of KSVG, the KDE SVG Implementation.

        Keep up the good work!!


> We use FreeType2 to render fonts.

        Good ;).


> I'm wondering if it's possible
> to define "outline" aka "stroke" colors for a FreeType font
> and not just fill colors.

        Sure, since you are doing it all yourself ;).

        What you need to do is ask FT for the outlines of the glyph 
instead of the rendering of the glyph, and then pass them through your own 
"path handler" to render the paths/outlines however you see fit.

        We do this in ImageMagick in our SVG renderer (as well as our 
general text annotation stuff) - so feel free to look there to see how it's 
done.


Leonard