[Bf-taskforce25] Blendfont status and proposal.

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Diego,

I'm fine with removing bmfont. Not sure what else will be removed... 
Campbell mentions the postscript loaded, but this is only used for the 
3D Font Object type, which better not gets affected by this work. It's 
a separate topic, right?

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
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On 28 Apr, 2009, at 10:08, Campbell Barton wrote:

> +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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