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[Jacob Jingle]

What's the best c++ library for doing anti-aliased text in OpenGL?

Best = portable to Windows and Linux, easy to use, doesn't use deprecated code, makes it easy to deal with user changing font, fast, opengl 4.1-2 glsl 4.1, etc.

[sinalta]

I've had good experience with FreeType 2, it's under a pretty nice license too from what I remember.

[zacaj]

Its surprisingly easy to write your own using Freetype. If youre looking for a regular library, well also need to know what version of openGL youre targetting. Most dont work with 1,2,3, and 4

[Katie]

Pango/Cairo. Drop it on a texture. Draw it to your screen. Cross platform. Renders everything from plain text up to simple HTML markup. Handles i18n. Everyone always ignores this recommendation without trying it I don't know why.

[Jacob Jingle]

Its surprisingly easy to write your own using Freetype. If youre looking for a regular library, well also need to know what version of openGL you're targeting. Most don't work with 1,2,3, and 4

I'm looking to go with 4.1 and up.

[zacaj]

In that case, youre going to have trouble finding any libraries. I had this problem a few months ago, and if I remember, I only even found one library that supported 3.0+ (3/4 should be compatable) Im trying to find that one, but Im not having much luck. Your best bet is to just write something yourself, its only like 300 lines of code for a complete text class

EDIT: http://www.lighthouse3d.com/very-simple-libs/vsfl/