Hello,
My problem is following: the application we are developing requires a port to other platforms, and in a very robust way. Until now (Windows platform) we generated 2 fonts at program start using the wglUseFontBitmaps or the wglUseFontOutlines. But since fonts are not that important in our application and will always keep the same look, I want to rigidly embedd those 2 fonts in the application. So:
- No more font generation at program start, just font loading
That is also the easiest/cleanest way for a port to other platforms. I know, it is not flexible, but we don't need the flexibility on the fonts.
To save the 2 fonts in a custom format, I first thought about retrieving the generated font in some way from the display lists, but that is apparently impossible. I had a look at the Mesa implementation of wglUseFontBitmaps and wglUseFontOutlines, but those functions are not implemented.
So I want to use a neutral library that only uses c/c++ commands with simple openGL functions (no wglUseFontOutlines or such). Is there such a library with a collection of fonts to chose from?
I had a look at GLX, GLC, GLUT, GLTT, WGL, GLF, Queso GLC and GLTT. But either they are not cross platform, either they rely on other libraries (FreeType), or do not always guarantee to find the fonts in the specified directory (linked to platform dependency). But in all cases, they generate the fonts, which I don't want anymore.
Thanks for any advice!
