Re: FreeType

> I believe the problem you are seeing is that the fonts are small
> _and_ antialiased. 

Well, yeah.  But un-antialiased and they look bad, just in a different 
way =)

I ended up hacking a simple Python package that lets me render a 
string in a given font to a buffer, which I can then insert into a 
texture.  I don't have the higher level string caching in place, but 
so far the results are very promising in terms of quality.  The API is 
pretty brute force simple:

import winfont

f = winfont.createfont( 'Courier New', height=16,italic=True)
buf,w,h = f.render('Hello world!',(255,255,255),(64,64,64))
surf = pygame.image.fromstring( buf, w, h, "RGBX", True )
pygame.image.save( surf, 'test.tga')

I'll worry about the string caching and subtex modifications next and 
see if this is all everyone claims it is =)

Brian



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