Got some trivial bitmap font support
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orangy
11/24/2018, 8:53 PM
Got some trivial bitmap font support
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dalexander
11/26/2018, 1:08 PMThat’s very cool, I implemented bitmap fonts once and remember it being a hassle to handle all of the kerning and pixel alignment so the text was crisp. It made me wonder how they ever managed to render text to the screen without a modern computer 🧌
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orangy
11/26/2018, 1:37 PM
In 1999 I was working on a project where we needed to render all kinds of fonts on a hand-held device, like Compaq iPaq. Existing libraries to render TTF were very expensive and worked very slow, so we had to make our own. It was a nice adventure 🙂
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dalexander
11/26/2018, 1:46 PMThat does sound pretty neat.
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orangy
11/26/2018, 6:35 PM
It sounds fun, and then you need to support CJKV
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dalexander
11/27/2018, 12:47 PMThat sounds like a different kind of fun! 🧌
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