[Bf-taskforce25] Blendfont status and proposal.

[Campbell Barton]

+1 for removing bitmap fronts, can also remove our own post script
font loading code.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Diego B <bdiego at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, this mail is to write a little about the status of blenfont
> and the changes that I want to do:
>
> First of all, blenfont can load/work with two types of fonts, the
> first is freetype2 and the second
> what I call "internal font", and it's the old bitmap font (intern/bmfont).
>
> Here is where we have the first limitation, with freetype2 we can:
>  * Load any font support by freetype2
>  * Change the font size without limitation
>  * Change the dpi (screen resolution)
>  * Apply a transformation (2x2 mat) to every glyph that we load, this
> is apply by the library
>     so the final bitmap glyph have all the details. (we can get
> better rotate text)
>  * Support utf8/international
>
> and the internal font:
>  * The font are limit to what we have builtin (right now helv, helv
> bold and scr)
>  * The font size are limit, helv 10, 12, helv bold 8, 10, 12 and scr 12, 14, 15
>  * Can't change the dpi
>  * Can't apply transformations
>  * Only support ascii characters
>
>
> The library support two mode for draw both fonts, Texture and Bitmap.
> The Texture mode have all
> the new functions, rotate, blur, clipping, shadow in the other side,
> the Bitmap mode still need more work.
>
> One of the big problem is keep a nice/clean/understandable text when
> we don't use the freetype2 library, this is
> because the limitation of the internal font.
>
> So.. the freetype2 library has been on Blender since a long time and I
> think is time to move on.
>
> What I want to do is remove the old internal font and always work with
> freetype2, doing this freetype2
> is no more optional and we can remove all the WITH_FREETYPE2.
>
> My todo:
>  1) Remove old internal font (also bmfont) and WITH_FREETYPE2
>  2) Add shadow option to blenfont (move from Style to BLF)
>  3) Add a "draw to buffer" function (for stamp info)
>  4) Put the Bitmap mode to the same level that Texture mode (go to
> keep this ? or just move to texture ?)
>
>
> Comments ? Suggestion ?
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- Campbell