On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Krishna wrote:
> Hi Graeme, > > On 12/29/06, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to implement anti-aliased text in my fpGUI widget set and > > started with Xft, but that only works under Linux and not Windows. Not > > really a issue I guess, I just heard that FreeType 2 apparently > > generates even better glyphs under Windows than Windows inself can. > > That is all it does, generate glyphs. Do you intend to build a text > rendering subsystem? If not, then you are better off using Xft on X > and the native API on Win32. Yes and no. The fpimage system was designed to run on a systeem without graphical display: Windows services or Linux servers without X. The use of freetype allows you to draw text on a bitmap and e.g. send it to a remote client. (e.g. from a cgi program) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
