Picture to People font engine can draw text outline natively. It can be made using any True-Type font. It's one of the main features people usually miss in a "common" font renderer. With Picture to People, this kind of drawing is highly...
Topics: font rendering engine, vetorial tools

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Picture to People font engine is powerful and scalable. This example shows you how the text renderer can draw strange or complex True Type fonts with no quality losing. This font engine forced me to improve some features to the extreme and these...
Topics: font rendering engine, vetorial tools

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Probably you don't know, but all this text in tiny size is a very important example of Picture to People font engine. This example shows a phrase written with several different fonts in size 8. My font renderer has its own hinting techniques and the..
Topics: font rendering engine, vetorial tools

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Now I'm working in an engine to render texts from scratch (from TTF fonts) with arbitrary vector based transformations. Believe you or not, it's a VERY hard task. The reason is not the transformations by themselves; the development of a complete..
Topics: font rendering engine, typography, vetorial tools

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Here I show you the last "Real Pencil" example for a while. Can you see like the delicate strokes follow the photo structure? It's one of the more important features of this renderer. As a complete project, this tool uses libraries that...
Topics: pencil drawing, Picture to People official website, vetorial tools

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