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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Text in OpenGL
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:59:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710072259.32115.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b17e12b30710071208x3b4bd070v413e6fde933fa77a@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 07 October 2007 20:08:27 Orlin Grigorov wrote:
> Thank you all for the suggestions.  Yes, the Smoke Vector Graphics library
> looks like is extremely professional and good job.   Still, I need
> something easy and small, and I thought more about the "image to texture"
> suggestion, and I think I found something, which will definitely work good
> for my purposes.  I decide to give it a try by going through latex, which
> will produce a dvi file, then use "convert" to make it into a suitable
> format for importing into an OpenGL texture.
>
> What do you think?

Yes. You might find it easier to render using Smoke (just tweak the demo) and 
capture the glyphs as pixmaps using OpenGL.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-07  4:00 Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-07  4:29 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-10-07  8:42 ` Vu Ngoc San
2007-10-07 19:08   ` Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-07 21:17     ` Chris Campbell
2007-10-07 21:59     ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-10-08  8:14     ` Vu Ngoc San

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