Re: Scalable fonts: How to create a font bitmap from its path specification.

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What do you need a rastered version of the glyphs for? Where is SVG involved?

Thomas W.


--- In [email protected], "Srinivas" <sinu.nayak2001@...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> 
> To my knowledge, a scalable font specifies the path to be traversed, to draw a font. Assume that I have the path specification for a font, how can I create the bitmap of it?
> 
> I think, true type font specifies the paths for a font. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Lets say, I have a font for (capital) I. Its path specification may be like a rectangle (for simplicity). What can be the algorithm to draw such a font for various size?
> 
> Do we need to use any area-fill algorithm to draw the scalable font after we draw the path of the font scaling to the desired size?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>




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