Freetype python bindings
Project description
FreeType high-level python API
Freetype python provides bindings for the FreeType library. Only the high-level API is bound.
Documentation available at: http://freetype-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Installation
To be able to use freetype python, you need the freetype library version 2 installed on your system.
Mac users
Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install it using homebrew or compile it and place the library binary file in ‘/usr/local/lib’.
Linux users
Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install relevant package from your package manager or compile from sources and place the library binary file in ‘/usr/local/lib’.
Window users
You can try to install a window binaries available from the Freetype site or you can compile it from sources. In such a case, make sure the resulting library binaries is named ‘Freetype.dll’ (and not something like Freetype245.dll) and make sure to place a copy in Windows/System32 directory.
Usage example
import freetype
face = freetype.Face("Vera.ttf")
face.set_char_size( 48*64 )
face.load_char('S')
bitmap = face.glyph.bitmap
print bitmap.bufferScreenshots
Screenshot below comes from the wordle.py example. No clever tricks here, just brute force.
Screenshots below comes from the glyph-vector.py and glyph-vectopr-2.py examples showing how to access a glyph outline information and use it to draw the glyph. Rendering (with Bézier curves) is done using matplotlib.
Screenshot below comes from the glyph-color.py showing how to draw and combine a glyph outline with the regular glyph.
The screenshot below comes from the hello-world.py example showing how to draw text in a bitmap (that has been zoomed in to show antialiasing).
The screenshot below comes from the agg-trick.py example showing an implementation of ideas from the Texts Rasterization Exposures by Maxim Shemarev.
Contributors
Titusz Pan (bug report)
Ekkehard.Blanz (bug report)
Jānis Lībeks (bug report)
Frantisek Malina (typo)
Tillmann Karras (bug report & fix)
Matthew Sitton (bug report & fix)
Tao Gong (bug report)
Matthew Sitton (Remove raw interfaces from the __init__.py file)
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