Loading fonts from memory

[Tobias Widlund]

Hello!

I am wondering if there is anyone who has successfully used freetype-gl to load a font not from filename, but from a char* array containing the font data. As I've seen, the API only allows the filename.

Loading from memory is a really useful feature in many cases. A few examples being if you have all assets for an application (images, fonts, text, etc) stored in a single compressed resource file, or if the font is being received over a network stream, or if all resource loading happens in a specific part of the application and then being passed to the correct parts, etc.

Perhaps this could be a feature added to freetype-gl? I could myself help writing this but I would need discussion to see what people think, and how it could be done in the best way.

What do you think?

Regards, Tobias

[Nicolas Rougier]

I think someone proposed this some time ago and only the svn stuff prevent me from integrating it. If you dig into this group you might find the code.

Nicolas

[Tobias Widlund]

Hmmm I am not sure where that would be. I have skimmed through all 22 posts in this group and I saw nothing related to font loading from memory. Is there another forum somewhere else than google groups where it might be?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Oct 4, 2013 8:21 AM, "Tobias Widlund" <widlun...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hmmm I am not sure where that would be. I have skimmed through all 22 posts in this group and I saw nothing related to font loading from memory. Is there another forum somewhere else than google groups where it might be?

FT_New_Memory_Face().
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html

behdad

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>
> On Friday, October 4, 2013 1:56:43 PM UTC+2, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
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>>
>> I think someone proposed this some time ago and only the svn stuff prevent me from integrating it. If you dig into this group you might find the code.
>>
>> Nicolas
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>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 4, 2013 1:18:49 PM UTC+2, Tobias Widlund wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there is anyone who has successfully used freetype-gl to load a font not from filename, but from a char* array containing the font data. As I've seen, the API only allows the filename.
>>>
>>> Loading from memory is a really useful feature in many cases. A few examples being if you have all assets for an application (images, fonts, text, etc) stored in a single compressed resource file, or if the font is being received over a network stream, or if all resource loading happens in a specific part of the application and then being passed to the correct parts, etc.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this could be a feature added to freetype-gl? I could myself help writing this but I would need discussion to see what people think, and how it could be done in the best way.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Regards, Tobias
>

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[Tobias Widlund]

But that function is in freetype, and not part of the freetype-gl API? How would I then use it with freetype-gl's font API?

[Nicolas Rougier]

The best would be to add the same functionality into freetype-gl.

Nico

On Oct 4, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Tobias Widlund <widlun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But that function is in freetype, and not part of the freetype-gl API? How
> would I then use it with freetype-gl's font API?
>
> On Friday, October 4, 2013 4:12:42 PM UTC+2, behdad wrote:
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>> On Oct 4, 2013 8:21 AM, "Tobias Widlund" <widlun...@gmail.com<javascript:>>

>> an email to freetype-gl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-10-04 11:48 AM, Tobias Widlund wrote:
> But that function is in freetype, and not part of the freetype-gl API? How
> would I then use it with freetype-gl's font API?

Just change texture_font_load_face() to take an opened FT_Face instead.

> On Friday, October 4, 2013 4:12:42 PM UTC+2, behdad wrote:
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> On Oct 4, 2013 8:21 AM, "Tobias Widlund" <widlun...@gmail.com

> an email to freetype-gl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>.

> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out

> <https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>.

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[Nicolas Rougier]

Sorry, the post is issue #33 in fact:

http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/issues/detail?id=33


Nicolas