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Originally Posted by Bobflip
Have you looked into using Cairo fonts? I'm bundling a custom font in the resources of my plug and can use that across all my controls. It's possible to use more than one font as well with extra work. Here's a thread about it:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=197181
My code on the last post can be optimised, as it's creating the text path twice - once for the outline and once for the fill, where it only needs to create the path once and instead of the first cairo_stroke use cairo_stroke_preserve. |
Having success using this recipe!!! I can use any font now. I simplified the text rendering to single layer. Otherwise I noticed the speed slowdown (my patch editor librarian view shows groups of 128 patches, thats a lot of text!)
Still don't know why my font choice was so limited with WDL-OL, but its great to be using Cairo graphics now, it is certainly very powerful for rich graphics.