[ft] full-color bitmap font format with transparency...

[Jeremiah Coyle]

Hello,

Wondering if FreeType supports any font format which supports 32bit 
color depth and transparency.  Would BDF or PCF support this?
What I would like to do is create a bitmap font from a glyph library of 
print-resolution TIF files (CMYK or RGB).  These TIF files would be 
full color and support transparency.
The idea would be something where you could create really cool 
picture-based fonts and then format and render them into a background 
image with something like the gimp.

Any thoughts appreciated.

-J