wok-current diff ftgl/description.txt @ rev 24836
updated libtasn1 and libtasn1-dev (4.16.0 -> 4.18.0)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Mar 25 07:25:04 2022 +0100 (2022-03-25) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/ftgl/description.txt Fri Mar 25 07:25:04 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ 1.4 +FTGL is a free open source library to enable developers to use arbitrary 1.5 +fonts in their OpenGL (www.opengl.org) applications. 1.6 + 1.7 +Unlike other OpenGL font libraries FTGL uses standard font file formats 1.8 +so doesn't need a preprocessing step to convert the high quality font data 1.9 +into a lesser quality, proprietary format. 1.10 + 1.11 +FTGL uses the Freetype (www.freetype.org) font library to open and 'decode' 1.12 +the fonts. It then takes that output and stores it in a format most efficient 1.13 +for OpenGL rendering.