From: Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Allegro & GRX20 fonts
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:58:04 +0200
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Genady Beryozkin wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I'm writing a program in which I need to use various proportional
> fonts - because the user may want to use the font up to any size.
> The one solution I found is to use BCC2GRX and use these borland .chr
> files. However I'm looking for some more elegant solution. I've read
> that GRX fonts may be proportional - but all the fonts in the FONTS
> directory are fixed. The same applies to allegro - It builds
> proportional fonts from a pcx image - which is a bitmap. So I'm stuck
> with it. I thought of using TTF or TYPE1 fonts - does anybody
> have any idea how to do that ?

Genady,

have a look at 
 http://www.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/~robert/freetype.html

for a TTF lib and at 

 http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/rmz/t1lib.html

for a Type 1 rasterizer.

Hartmut
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