Re: [ft] Slim down FreeType2

[Aya Koshigaya]

Mh I just found out, the rasterizer has a define to run as standalone  
- that would be exactly what I need.
But the source is still very big and I can't find the main function to  
raster someting..

So, how do I use the standalone rasterizer?

Aya~


On 19.08.2009, at 05:08, address@hidden wrote:

> Sorry, I don't know good tutorial or easy-to-read source codes
> to understand how to "incorporate" FT2 into other projects.
>
> Does anybody know a simple software that had incorporated FT2
> with its sources? I know only Ghostscript, but old FT1, not FT2,
> and the source is too complex to use as a tutorial.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:59:43 +0200
> Aya Koshigaya <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > but.. I'd like to slim down the lib to only a few cpp and header
> > files, so I can include it in my project directly.. I don't want to
> > create a library that I have to link to.. (because I'd have to  
> > compile
> > this lib for any platform I am developing on)
> >
> > Or else if this is not possible so easy... I have written a TTF-File
> > reader myself, so I am able to read all the glyph data etc I need,
> > only thing I am missing is the Rasterizer... so, is it somehow
> > possible to just take the rasterizer of FreeType? (Would be my
> > preferred solution btw)
> >
> > Aya~
> >
> >
> > On 18.08.2009, at 19:00, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Please check docs/CUSTOMIZE. Editing modules.cfg would be easy.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > mpsuzuki
> > >
> > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:50:39 +0200
> > > Aya Koshigaya <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > as far as I know, FreeType2 is built up in different modules, so I
> > > > could remove everything I don't need, right?
> > > > I have written my own Managment system for the fonts etc.. so all I
> > > > need is the rasterized bitmap for a given unicode character and the
> > > > measurements (Advance, Bearing etc) for it.
> > > >
> > > > All FreeType functions I use in my code are:
> > > >
> > > > FT_Init_FreeType
> > > > FT_New_Face
> > > > FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes
> > > > FT_Load_Char
> > > >
> > > > Together with these variables:
> > > >
> > > > FT_Library
> > > > FT_GlyphSlot
> > > > FT_Bitmap
> > > > FT_Face
> > > >
> > > > And I need only support for TrueType Fonts (*.ttf or *.otf).
> > > >
> > > > But I don't know what I can remove and what is needed..
> > > > In the src-directory are a lot of sub-directorys.. which one are
> > > > needed for what I want to do?
> > > > And if I remove them, how do I tell FreeType that I removed some of
> > > > the modules so I don't get compile-errors?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Aya
> > > >
> > > >
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