A Haskell binding to Freetype2 is indeed missing. Would be nice to have.
Yes, the FTGL library, but it uses FTGL on the backend and not
freetype directly. You might be able to get the flyph shapes from
Pango...
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Dmitry V'yal <akamaus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings. I'm trying to render some glyphs from ttf font to svg
> image using gtk2hs cairo binding. Since I can find nothing appropriate in
> gtk2hs API, I decided to draw outlines with bezier curves myself. But how
> to get them out of font? As far as I know, freetype library is capable of
> extracting outlines, but is there any haskell binding for it which supports
> this functionality?
>
> Here [1] one such lib was mentioned, but it wasn't availible online
> that time. Have situation changed today?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> [1]
> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Rendering-TTF-fonts-in-Haskell-and-OpenGL-p15635659.html
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