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OGLFT - Renders text in OpenGL programs

The OpenGL/FreeType2 Text Rendering Library (OGLFT) supplies an interface between a font and an OpenGL or Mesa application.It uses the FreeType library to read font faces from their files and renders text strings as OpenGL primitives. Characters can be rendered in a variety of ways, including as raster images, as tessellated polygons and as texture maps. Glyphs can be drawn individually or as a string, and can be rendered using UNICODE characters via the QString class (with Qt support). You can also combine several fonts together in one OGLFT Face to increase the coverage of UNICODE points or for other special effects. Strings can be rotated through any angle, and drawn right, centered or left justified. Additionally each character in a string can be rotated through a given angle.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://oglft.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/oglft/OGLFT-0.8.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30708
Version 0.8 (beta) released on 2002-07-12
Licensed under LGPL.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User tutorial available in HTML format from http://oglft.sourceforge.net/index.html#tutorial
Support contacts

Developer List<oglft-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=30708
SupportPaid support and consulting available from lignum Computing, Inc. (http://www.lignumcomputing.com)

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • Lignum Computing, Inc.

Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC++
Use requirementsOpen GL, Mesa
Build prerequisitesSGI GLU sample implementation (version 1.3)
Weak prerequisitesQt library (for rendering UNICODE characters), GLE library (for rendering solid characters)

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-12
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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