Re: [ft] Thick contours

[Adam D. Moss]

Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>          What I do for outlined text, is to get the vectors of the glyph 
> and then plot them.

I don't think that'd help in this case... I believe Laurent wants
a font-with-an-outline, not the outline of the font (not to
mention that I'm quite dubious that looping through the same
trivial rasterization code five times [applying it in hardware,
even] is 'a LOT of work' compared with tesselating a vector font
outline into GL primitives and then taking a second different pass
for a thickened outline including mitres etc).

But being able to extract the vector outline information for a font
sounds pretty useful in general.  Which part of the FT docs cover
this?  The closest I could find is the custom scanline handler,
but that seems like quite a heavy-handed way to tesselate a glyph
and not an easy way to extract actual edge data.

Regards,
--Adam
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