Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
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Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
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Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#2Can’t wait to hear about Linux’s gamma corrected antialiasing in future posts (or lack thereof).
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#3Nice, I've subscribed to the RSS feed. A little weird to see such old software versions being used in an article with 'modern' in its title, but I suppose you have to pick a point that's 'modern enough' to have something the majority of people can follow along with when they're all running old software too.
I wish it covered error handling a bit more than just 'exit(EXIT_FAILURE)'. FreeType must have some sort of error code or error message function.
But that's all just minor nitpicking. I like the simple and direct walkthrough of the FreeType API (and promising to include friends from the ecosystem in the future). I hope the blog series will continue!
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#4Can’t wait to hear about Linux’s gamma corrected antialiasing in future posts (or lack thereof).
I agree that it's an interesting topic. On reddit one of the authors of dear imgui has some interesting thought on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cfxltf/modern_...
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#5Nice, I've subscribed to the RSS feed. A little weird to see such old software versions being used in an article with 'modern' in its title, but I suppose you have to pick a point that's 'modern enough' to have something the majority of people can follow along with when they're all running old software too. I wish it covered error handling a bit more than just 'exit(EXIT_FAILURE)'. FreeType must have some sort of err…
Thanks :)
I've used what was available on the latest ubuntu lts. FreeType functions return 0 (FT_Err_Ok) on success or a specific value for each function, but yes I agree that error handling could be better, maybe at the expense of terseness.
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#6Can’t wait to hear about Linux’s gamma corrected antialiasing in future posts (or lack thereof).
If you use Qt 5.9+ and set the UI font to a .otf font, you get alpha-blended and gamma corrected text.
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#7Small nitpick: Freetype works on Windows too. So the same code can be used to render fonts there. Though it is perhaps easier to use the native DirectWrite api.
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#8Small nitpick: Freetype works on Windows too. So the same code can be used to render fonts there. Though it is perhaps easier to use the native DirectWrite api.
And every other Unix. There's nothing Linux-specific about this post.
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#9What makes this approach "modern"? What is this approach the alternative to?
As someone broadly unfamiliar with text rendering it's not clear to me. An introduction to these points would be very helpful
Re: Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
#10What makes this approach "modern"? What is this approach the alternative to? As someone broadly unfamiliar with text rendering it's not clear to me. An introduction to these points would be very helpful
It's part 1, so I would hope the author plans to move on from the basics here into more modern techniques (things like subpixel anti-aliasing, ligatures, etc).