QuickFont
Posted Sunday, 31 July, 2011 - 23:21 by james_lohrI'd just like to announce the release of QuickFont, a text printing and font generation library: http://www.opentk.com/project/QuickFont
I could only upload 4 images on the project page, so I've uploaded the remaining screenshots here.
Enjoy. :)
James L.
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Re: QuickFont
I like QuickFont, but whenever I look at the picture it seems that something is wrong. I think the problem is that the character of white space is abnormally wide.
What do you think of this?
Miguel
Re: QuickFont
I like QuickFont, but whenever I look at the picture it seems that something is wrong. I think the problem is that the character of white space is abnormally wide.
What do you think of this?
Miguel
Re: QuickFont
Agree with you, the white space size seems exagerated.
The library is promising but I looked at the code regarding my problem (Fixed size font), the rendering strategy seems strange for me.
Re: QuickFont
>>Agree with you, the white space size seems exagerated.
If you're referring to the second image, it looks exaggerate because I deliberately messed it up to make kerning more visible. If you're referring to the first image, well it doesn't matter because white-space size is configurable:
myFont.Options.WordSpacing = 0.5f;Setting word spacing to 1.0f means that a white space will be the size of the mean glyph width. Setting it to 0.5f will mean it will be half the mean glyph width etc.
>>Fixed size font
Currently QuickFont does not support monospace fonts (it will still always measure + kern glyphs irrespective ). Tomorrow I'll add a render option to allow any font to be rendered in monospace mode. :)
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I'll also set the default white-space size a bit smaller as I think you're right about it being a wee bit too large. :)
Re: QuickFont
There is also a bug with shadow (I am not sure). If the shadow is deactivated, there is a pass for shadow.
Re: QuickFont
I would like to recreate the process by which files have been created "woodenFont.qfont" and "woodenFont.png." I understand that the process should be a call to the "QFont.CreateTextureFontFiles (" woodenFont.ttf ", float size," woodenFont ")."
Is this correct? Where I can find the source woodenFont.ttf?
Miguel
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Nice, I think I will use this library for text printing.
I noticed that you're using GL.Vertex* calls, you really should use VBOs or at least display lists.
Re: QuickFont
Monospacing support has been added. :)
>>There is also a bug with shadow (I am not sure). If the shadow is deactivated, there is a pass for shadow.
Could you explain in more detail please?
>>Is this correct? Where I can find the source woodenFont.ttf?
Pretty much. The ttf comes with the example. It is called "BURNSTOW.TTF"; however, I have no idea what the licencing on the original font is, so I would not recommend using it.
>>I noticed that you're using GL.Vertex* calls, you really should use VBOs or at least display lists.
Yes I should; however some rough calculations showed the performance boost to be negligible when displaying readable amounts of text. Aside from performance, is there any other reason to use VBOs?
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>> Monospacing support has been added. :)
Thanks, i will test it :) I've made an hack to manage it but i will take your version, i am sure it is better.
>>There is also a bug with shadow (I am not sure). If the shadow is deactivated, there is a pass for shadow.
If the shadow is disabled, with a breakpoint in the method to render glyphs, the rendering is called twice.
Regards