I am in the middle (well, nearer to the end) of SWIGging the FreeType
library <URL: http://www.freetype.org>. FreeType is an Open Source
(with an almost Python-style licence) library for rendering Truetype
fonts onto bitmaps (or pixmaps).
My questions are:
* Is anyone else interested in this?
* Would they (if they, indeed, do exist) mind requiring Numeric to
provide the arrays that the engine rasters into? SWIG provides
the ability to make the necessary arrays, but accessing them from
Python is slow. Rastering into a Numeric array would instantly
provide the data to Python (and Python-level interaction with PIL
is fast, too).
* Since interaction with PIL at the C level would be great and I
don't know squat about how to make that happen, would anyone care
to contribute code (or pointers) for that?
Robert Kern |
----------------------|"In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
This space | Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
intentionally | - Richard Harter
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library <URL: http://www.freetype.org>. FreeType is an Open Source
(with an almost Python-style licence) library for rendering Truetype
fonts onto bitmaps (or pixmaps).
My questions are:
* Is anyone else interested in this?
* Would they (if they, indeed, do exist) mind requiring Numeric to
provide the arrays that the engine rasters into? SWIG provides
the ability to make the necessary arrays, but accessing them from
Python is slow. Rastering into a Numeric array would instantly
provide the data to Python (and Python-level interaction with PIL
is fast, too).
* Since interaction with PIL at the C level would be great and I
don't know squat about how to make that happen, would anyone care
to contribute code (or pointers) for that?
Robert Kern |
----------------------|"In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
This space | Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
intentionally | - Richard Harter
left blank. |