The current ttf addon asks Freetype to render to a bitmap, then caches the bitmap of each glyph in ALLEGRO_BITMAPs. There are (often) advantages for rendering the glyph outlines directly. Not trivial to implement, but Thomas Harte on allegro.cc offered code for it:
This is a very interesting idea. How should we approach this. Make a new ttf addon that is compatible with the other one, but selectable at runtime? Base it on a configuration settng?
Originally reported by: elias-pschernig
Original Ticket: "alleg/feature-requests/24":https://sourceforge.net/p/alleg/feature-requests/24
The current ttf addon asks Freetype to render to a bitmap, then caches the bitmap of each glyph in ALLEGRO_BITMAPs. There are (often) advantages for rendering the glyph outlines directly. Not trivial to implement, but Thomas Harte on allegro.cc offered code for it:
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/597997