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[Devel] lightweight freetype?
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graham |
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[Devel] lightweight freetype? |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:55:13 -0400 |
Hi! I'm a FreeType newbie, though not a graphics newbie. I'm
considering developing a lightweight FreeType, since I only need the
following:
- monochrome rendering only (1 bit per pixel) i.e. no antialiasing
- support for truetype and ps fonts only
- no hinting and such, since I only want quite big fonts
I also require that the library have a very small footprint. 1291 KB
is much too big :) Reducing FreeType to the above features would
reduce the footprint, I presume.
So... does anyone have any pointers for me on how I should go about
this? Or does someone have something like this already? The source
is quite large and the documentation is quite small :-)
So far, unless I'm seriously mistaken, it looks like I won't need the
truetype interpreter since I don't want any hinting. Same for the
autohinter and ps hinter. Also I can leave out some of the font
format modules since I don't want them. And I can remove the
antialiasing code. Anything else?
Thanks!
- Graham Fyffe
- [Devel] lightweight freetype?,
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