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FreeType high-level python API
==============================
Freetype python provides bindings for the FreeType library. Only the high-level API is bound.
Documentation available at: http://freetype-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Installation
============
To be able to use freetype python, you need the freetype library version 2
installed on your system.
Mac users
---------
Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install it
using `homebrew <http://brew.sh>`_ or compile it and place the library binary
file in '/usr/local/lib'.
Linux users
-----------
Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install
relevant package from your package manager or compile from sources and place
the library binary file in '/usr/local/lib'.
Window users
------------
You can try to install a window binaries available from the Freetype site or
you can compile it from sources. In such a case, make sure the resulting
library binaries is named 'Freetype.dll' (and not something like
Freetype245.dll) and make sure to place a copy in Windows/System32 directory.
Usage example
=============
.. code:: python
import freetype
face = freetype.Face("Vera.ttf")
face.set_char_size( 48*64 )
face.load_char('S')
bitmap = face.glyph.bitmap
print bitmap.buffer
Screenshots
===========
Screenshot below comes from the wordle.py example. No clever tricks here, just
brute force.
.. image:: doc/_static/wordle.png
Screenshots below comes from the glyph-vector.py and glyph-vectopr-2.py
examples showing how to access a glyph outline information and use it to draw
the glyph. Rendering (with Bézier curves) is done using matplotlib.
.. image:: doc/_static/S.png
.. image:: doc/_static/G.png
Screenshot below comes from the glyph-color.py showing how to draw and combine
a glyph outline with the regular glyph.
.. image:: doc/_static/outline.png
The screenshot below comes from the hello-world.py example showing how to draw
text in a bitmap (that has been zoomed in to show antialiasing).
.. image:: doc/_static/hello-world.png
The screenshot below comes from the agg-trick.py example showing an
implementation of ideas from the `Texts Rasterization Exposures
<http://agg.sourceforge.net/antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/>`_ by
Maxim Shemarev.
.. image:: doc/_static/agg-trick.png
Contributors
============
* Titusz Pan (bug report)
* Ekkehard.Blanz (bug report)
* Jānis Lībeks (bug report)
* Frantisek Malina (typo)
* Tillmann Karras (bug report & fix)
* Matthew Sitton (bug report & fix)
* Tao Gong (bug report)
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