ID:	5764
From:	rn...@igor2.repo.hu
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:05:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject:	[pcb-rnd] font engine revamp: looking for testers (for 1..2 hours)
replies:	5765 from Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com> , 5769 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu

Hi all,
 
after more experience on camv-rnd and sch-rnd font rendering 
(ttf+pixmaps), a long research on how such thing would export in png, ps 
and svg and a poll on the sch-rnd mailing list, I've concluded that I 
should do font support differently:
 
- I need to generalize pcb-rnd's font engine and detach it from pcb-rnd 
internals so it depends only on librnd API; I've 80% completed this one
 
- later on I need to move it to librnd
 
- I should replace the ttf+pixmap rendering in both sch-rnd and camv-rnd 
with the generalized version
 
- we should ship a set of simple but good looking stroke font with our 
tools (later with librnd); Erich has volunteered and drawn an excellent 
font for this purpose, so we already have this part mostly done, see 
aussiefont-v1 on edakrill. (I will need to generate bold, italic and 
bold+italic variants but that's probably easy.)
 
 
What's needed the most at the current stage is pcb-rnd testing (as soon as 
I finish initial implementation, today or tomorrow). 
 
Ideally a few power users with existing boards who are willing to test svn 
HEAD, temporary enable the new text rendering code and visually check a 
few of their existing boards (on screen, in exports). I do a lot of 
automated testing, so I assume a low probablity of finding new bugs, thus 
I expect this process woudl take at most 1..2 hours for a tester.
 
Please let me know if you can spare some time the coming days for this!
 
(It's very important because we want the new/generalized font engine to 
render the very same thing as the old one, nanometer-to-nanometer, for 
existing boards.)
 
TIA,
 
Igor2

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