Re: [ft] FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Im having trouble creating "cleartype" quality fonts.  I've read the
> docs and need to know how the freetype buffer is packed so I can
> extract the red,green and blues.

By default, FreeType doesn't do any separation into red, green, and
blue values.  It just returns a bit map which has a larger horizontal
(or vertical) resolution, namely three times larger.  Filtering
happens only if you call FT_Library_SetLcdFilter.

> The buffer is packed differently the flag "FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD" is
> set.  It states in the documentation that the width of the buffer is
> multiplied by three.  How to index that buffer?

Have a look into the file graph/grblit.c of the ft2demos package to
see how to handle such bitmaps.


    Werner