Add text
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:12 pm
As found out from discussions in the past and tests with the NCONVERT Win32 binary, the existing "Add Text" feature is just a very thin wrapper around the Win32-Font-API. It would be cool to have additionally a native implementation exiting on all target platforms and looking same on them all. I indeed know what this is about, some possibilities:
- Write all from scratch. Much work.
- Find a lib compatible by code (C89) and licence (BSD:good , GPL:evil). I don't know any. Hints are welcome
- Add just a "VGA-like" font text - easy, but not very useful on images >>1000 pixels in size.
- Use a "VGA-like" font, zoom it up using NN - easy, but not very professional, but IMHO better than nothing.
- Use a "VGA-like" font, zoom it up using Lanczos - easy, tested, looks fairly good
- Use my "zoomable text" code. Better than NN, but not as "professional" as someone might expect ...
- Write all from scratch. Much work.
- Find a lib compatible by code (C89) and licence (BSD:good , GPL:evil). I don't know any. Hints are welcome
- Add just a "VGA-like" font text - easy, but not very useful on images >>1000 pixels in size.
- Use a "VGA-like" font, zoom it up using NN - easy, but not very professional, but IMHO better than nothing.
- Use a "VGA-like" font, zoom it up using Lanczos - easy, tested, looks fairly good
- Use my "zoomable text" code. Better than NN, but not as "professional" as someone might expect ...