Re: [MiNT] Freetype

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:00:09 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 14:41 +0100, Miro Kropá?ek wrote:
>
> >         From our point of view it would probably make more sense to
> >         make a
> >         FreeType clone that use (Font)GDOS as a renderer instead of
> >         attempting
> >         to make some sort of shared library of FreeType itself.
> >
> > As seen here, for
> > instance: http://phoenix.inf.upol.cz/~opichals/aranym/index.html
>
> That is FreeType used as a GDOS renderer. What I meant was that if you
> for some reason would want to have some sort of shared library/renderer
> you could write a FreeType-compatible library that didn't have it's own
> renderer but used the underlying GDOS. Should be a lot lighter than
> linking a full renderer to every application that use it.
>
> OTOH I think FreeType does the rendering job better than NVDI.
>
> Jo Even
>
>

I think what I was originally asking was, is there a vdi that
offers the Freetype API as well as the usual GDO font api ?

I assume that fVDI uses the Freetype code to provide the GDOS VDI
api but not the Freetype api.

Peter