Extracting Font Outline informations

Mike C. Fletcher mcfletch at rogers.com
Mon Apr 4 12:06:01 EDT 2005


TTFQuery, built on top of FontTools, allows you to do this.  You can see
use of the extraction in the OpenGLContext/scenegraph/text package,
which uses TTFQuery to implement 3D text rendering.

http://ttfquery.sourceforge.net/
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/

HTH,
Mike

Gabriele *Darkbard* Farina wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is a Python library that makes me able to extract outline
> informations from font files? I'd like to manage TrueType and FreeType
> fonts ...
>
> I searched for som wrappers, but I didn't find anything ...
>
> bye

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