• Tom S (10/10) Jun 27 2007 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with
• Derek Parnell (10/18) Jun 27 2007 Wow! You have way too much free time on your hands
• Lutger (6/16) Jun 28 2007 Thanks! Very valuable information. I've just purchased an LCD monitor
• Deewiant (16/25) Jun 28 2007 Nice. I've been hoping for something like this ever since I first saw so...
• janderson (2/12) Jun 28 2007 An awesome read. Well done!
• Tom S (6/6) Jun 29 2007 Thanks for the feedback folks! The tutorial landed on opengl.org, dzone
• Lutger (3/6) Jun 29 2007 And well deserved. You should make a post on gamedev.net too, the topic
• Clay Smith (3/13) Jun 30 2007 Very well done :) Now there is no excuse for OpenGL D apps to have poor

Tom S <h3r3tic remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> writes:

It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
glyph caching.

http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1

Let me know what you think!
Cheers :)


-- 
Tomasz Stachowiak
http://h3.team0xf.com/
h3/h3r3tic on #D freenode

Derek Parnell <derek nomail.afraid.org> writes:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:02:15 +0200, Tom S wrote:

 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
 subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
 glyph caching.
 
 http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
 
 Let me know what you think!
 Cheers :)

Wow!  You have way too much free time on your hands <G>

Great work and I'm very impressed. I hope I never have to do such low-level
coding for throwing text onto a screen. I'll stick to using library
routines, like yours of course.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
28/06/2007 4:37:49 PM

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

Tom S wrote:
 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
 subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
 glyph caching.
 
 http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
 
 Let me know what you think!
 Cheers :)
 
 

Thanks! Very valuable information. I've just purchased an LCD monitor 
and find making fonts look good all the time is just, ugh.

About free texture tools, have you seen the one on angelcode? It does 
kerning, unicode, tight packing, etc. I liked it a lot
for simple font requirements: http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/

Deewiant <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam gmail.com> writes:

Tom S wrote:
 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with
 subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand
 glyph caching.
 
 http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
 
 Let me know what you think!
 Cheers :)
 

Nice. I've been hoping for something like this ever since I first saw some
screenshots on, IIRC, your FragBots page, about a year ago.

I've always been annoyed with bitmap fonts as well, and been frustrated with my
attempts to get FreeType to work: it's pretty much the lowest level library for
this stuff, but the few good wrappers that exist are either for C++ or
long-abandoned projects (or both). It's good that you've made a library which:
	- is in D
	- uses FreeType 2
	- has Unicode support
	- does all that fancy stuff which I could never bother to figure out
	- actually considers issues like not supporting a certain level of OpenGL

Haven't played around with it yet, though, but my comments hold if the tutorial
isn't overstating your accomplishments. ;-)

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janderson <askme me.com> writes:

Tom S wrote:
 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
 subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
 glyph caching.
 
 http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
 
 Let me know what you think!
 Cheers :)
 
 

An awesome read.  Well done!

Tom S <h3r3tic remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> writes:

Thanks for the feedback folks! The tutorial landed on opengl.org, dzone 
and del.icio.us BTW :D

-- 
Tomasz Stachowiak
http://h3.team0xf.com/
h3/h3r3tic on #D freenode

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

Tom S wrote:
 Thanks for the feedback folks! The tutorial landed on opengl.org, dzone 
 and del.icio.us BTW :D
 

And well deserved. You should make a post on gamedev.net too, the topic 
comes up regularly but resources are, as you mentioned, often lacking.

Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Tom S wrote:
 It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
 subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
 glyph caching.
 
 http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
 
 Let me know what you think!
 Cheers :)
 
 

Very well done :) Now there is no excuse for OpenGL D apps to have poor 
fonts.