On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Dmitry V'yal
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?
Hello, I am Bit from the thread that you referenced. I have not yet uploaded the bindings to FreeType that I mentioned. I'll try to upload a darcs repository of what I have. The bindings are incomplete, but there is full support for loading fonts and extracting the outlines. What is missing is FreeType's functions for rendering glyphs to bitmaps. I even made a high level wrapper function to make extraction of glyph outlines easier: outlineDecompose2 :: FT.Outline -> IO OutlineDecomposition data OutlineContourStep = OutlineContourLineTo FT.Vector | OutlineContourConicTo FT.Vector FT.Vector | OutlineContourCubicTo FT.Vector FT.Vector FT.Vector deriving (Eq, Show) data OutlineContour = OutlineContour FT.Vector [OutlineContourStep] deriving (Eq, Show) data OutlineDecomposition = OutlineDecomposition [OutlineContour] deriving (Eq, Show) I also made an example that renders the outlines using OpenGL to verify that everything works. I will apply for an account on code.haskell.org and upload the current state of the bindings into a darcs repository there. P.S. Anyone know how to apply to get an account on code.haskell.org?