Re: [ft] Thick contours

[Adam D. Moss]

Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 10:33 AM 3/30/2005, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> > 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
>
>         What's the difference?

The difference is that painting your already-rasterized text
five times is a very easy way to get text with an outline
but a very hard way to get an outline.

>         A glyph is a shape that can either be filled (or the normal 
> operation for FT), stroked (what Laurent appears to be trying to 
> achieve) or both.

I believe that what Laurent is trying to achieve is text
which is readable against any background.

>         FT_Outline_Decompose()

Thanks.

--Adam
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