[vtk-developers] set Font in vtkFreeTypeUtilities

[David Lonie]

Hi Christoph,

That was an experimental bit of code from a while back. There is
currently FontConfig support available in the
Rendering/FreeTypeFontConfig module that will use system fonts in VTK.
The support is very rough at the moment, but should be extended in the
coming months. At the moment, I am not aware of a way to explicitly
load a specific font from a file.

As an aside, the current VTK uses vtkFreeTypeTools (not Utilities) for
text rendering, preferably through the vtkTextRenderer interface.

Hope this helps,
Dave

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Christoph Kolb
<c.kolb at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I noticed that the code, responsible to load a user defined font file is
> commented out in vtkFreeTypeUtilities - starting here:
> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Rendering/FreeType/vtkFreeTypeUtilities.cxx#L1575
>
> Is there an alternative to load a font file to use with the
> vtkFreeTypeUtilities, or will this be reimplemented in the future?
>
> Thanks!
> Christoph
>
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