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Underlining text rendering engine

Posted: 2010-11-20T18:26:28-07:00
by voidvector
I have been writing an application that takes advantage of ImageMagick's text to image features (and almost exclusively those features). I understand it uses freetype to get text information. Does ImageMagick perform any kind of processing (anti-aliasing, tuning, etc) after receiving the data from freetype?

Re: Underlining text rendering engine

Posted: 2010-11-20T19:07:35-07:00
by magick
Does ImageMagick perform any kind of processing (anti-aliasing, tuning, etc) after receiving the data from freetype?
No.

Re: Underlining text rendering engine

Posted: 2010-11-20T19:26:20-07:00
by voidvector
Are there any other layers in between freetype and ImageMagick? such Pango or HarfBuzz

Re: Underlining text rendering engine

Posted: 2010-11-20T20:08:04-07:00
by magick
Are there any other layers in between freetype and ImageMagick? such Pango or HarfBuzz
No.