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I'm currently trying to add all remaining high level api into freetype-py so FT_Get_Sfnt_Name should be in a few hours hopefully.
If I forgot to add other useful functions, just tell me.
The agg-trick.py is very similar from what I found in ft2font in matploltib: setting a resolution at (10*dpi, dpi) and a transform matri =(.1,0,0,1).
One output is available on: http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/coding/freetype/agg-trick.png
(This is with subpixel antialias)
I will also integrate the ft_utils within freetype-py.
Nicolas
On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I've made a basic first crack at this.
> 
> Thanks to your examples, it was really easy to get basic text rendering with matplotlib's Agg backend (the other backends will need to be updated accordingly, and they may be more involved since they actually need to extract curves). I've made an SVN branch for this here: (I know, I know, git would make this easier, but afaik we're not quite there yet...)
> 
> https://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/ctypes_freetype
> 
> This doesn't use the Agg tricks rendering (finer grained hinting in the horizontal direction etc.) so it's a little lower quality than matplotlib trunk right now. However, your agg-tricks.py example certainly shows the way forward to making that work. I've tried to localise all of the higher-level stuff in freetype_util.py (in matplotlib) to make this easier. It may also make sense to put this kind of higher-level (but extremely common) functionality in freetype-py itself.
> 
> The next stumbling block to removing the existing wrapper is the FT_Get_Sfnt_Name API which doesn't seem to be in your ctypes wrappers. This is used to extract metadata about the fonts and build the font cache table etc. Hopefully it's simple to add this?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 02/01/2011 10:53 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've bound (part of) the high-level API of freetype using ctypes.
>> 
>> I don't know if it might be useful for matplotib text rendering but just in case:
>> http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nicolas
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> I've made a basic first crack at this.
>
> Thanks to your examples, it was really easy to get basic text rendering with
> matplotlib's Agg backend (the other backends will need to be updated
> accordingly, and they may be more involved since they actually need to
> extract curves). I've made an SVN branch for this here: (I know, I know,
> git would make this easier, but afaik we're not quite there yet...)
>
> https://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/ctypes_freetype
I've added this to the list of branches to be converted to the git repo.

I've made a basic first crack at this.
Thanks to your examples, it was really easy to get basic text rendering 
with matplotlib's Agg backend (the other backends will need to be 
updated accordingly, and they may be more involved since they actually 
need to extract curves). I've made an SVN branch for this here: (I 
know, I know, git would make this easier, but afaik we're not quite 
there yet...)
https://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/ctypes_freetype
This doesn't use the Agg tricks rendering (finer grained hinting in the 
horizontal direction etc.) so it's a little lower quality than 
matplotlib trunk right now. However, your agg-tricks.py example 
certainly shows the way forward to making that work. I've tried to 
localise all of the higher-level stuff in freetype_util.py (in 
matplotlib) to make this easier. It may also make sense to put this 
kind of higher-level (but extremely common) functionality in freetype-py 
itself.
The next stumbling block to removing the existing wrapper is the 
FT_Get_Sfnt_Name API which doesn't seem to be in your ctypes wrappers. 
This is used to extract metadata about the fonts and build the font 
cache table etc. Hopefully it's simple to add this?
Mike
On 02/01/2011 10:53 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've bound (part of) the high-level API of freetype using ctypes.
>
> I don't know if it might be useful for matplotib text rendering but 
> just in case:
> http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
>
>
>
> Nicolas
>
>
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Thanks for doing this! There was certainly nothing like this last time 
I looked.
I'll look further into whether this is a useful replacement for the 
domain-specific freetype wrappers in matplotlib now...
Cheers,
Mike
On 02/01/2011 10:53 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've bound (part of) the high-level API of freetype using ctypes.
>
> I don't know if it might be useful for matplotib text rendering but 
> just in case:
> http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
>
>
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free!
> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires
> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY!
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>
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Hi all,
I've bound (part of) the high-level API of freetype using ctypes.
I don't know if it might be useful for matplotib text rendering but just in case:
http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/
Nicolas