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pre-rendered bitmap font?

Posted: 2011-05-13T16:00:36-07:00
by yecril71pl
Hi. I am looking for a way to make IM use a pre-rendered bitmapped font subset (pcf?) (fixed size, no AA, no paths, slants or rotations) — I hope it would make IM quick as a line printer and my application would stop crashing. Please help.

Re: pre-rendered bitmap font?

Posted: 2011-05-15T05:35:49-07:00
by anthony
You could just try the .pcf file as a -font argument. The font renderer is generally quite versatile.

Oh and please let us know what the result was (good or bad).

Re: pre-rendered bitmap font?

Posted: 2011-05-16T06:28:51-07:00
by yecril71pl
anthony wrote:You could just try the .pcf file as a -font argument. The font renderer is generally quite versatile.

Oh and please let us know what the result was (good or bad).
No result :(
onvert: unable to read font `./courR24.bdf' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1115.
convert: unable to read font `./courR24.bdf' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1115.
(I used the Adobe distribution)

Alternatively, is there a way to use FreeType to render glyph bitmaps, preferably with (build-in) glyph caching? Currently FreeType is used only to extract outlines that are rendered as curves.