[Bf-committers] To anyone (Emil Brink?) working on fonts...

[Joe Eagar]

Caronte wrote:
> Would be nice if we can load several fonts at once (multi-selection) and as
> well would be nice if we can have realtime preview while select loaded fonts
> (up&down keys in combobox).
> Otherwise is a pain to find the desired font :(
>
> Thanks!
>
> Caronte.
>
>   
There's other reasons, too.  For Blender to work on certain ATI cards, 
bFTGL (International) fonts has to be used *everywhere,* including the 
text editor.  When I added bFTGL support to the editor I discovered that 
it cannot use the global font, as it requires a monospace font.  I 
solved this by compiling in a free gnome monospaced font, but to my 
dismay I discovered that it's necessary to load/unload the font on every 
redraw event (since there's only one font supported at a time, I have to 
switch to the monospaced font, draw the text buffer then switch back to 
the global one).

Support for multiple-loaded fonts would be helpful here.

joeedh