the objective of libttf is to be a simple and portable library to render .ttf font
orignaly written for the stanix operating system libttf is hopping to one day become a viable concurrent to libfreetype

build and install

start by launching the configure script

./configure

then run make

make

and finally install

make install

api

you can get started with

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ttf.h>

int main(){
    //open a ttf file
    ttf_file *font = ttf_open("DejaVuSans.ttf");
    if(!font){
        printf("libttf : %s\n",ttf_error());
        return 1;
    }

    //get a glyph
    ttf_glyph *glyph = ttf_getglyph(font,'A');

    //generate a bitmap
    ttf_bitmap *bitmap = ttf_render_glyph(glyph);

    ttf_free_glyph(glyph);

    ttf_close(font);
    return 0;
}

and then compile with

gcc test.c -lttf

functions

• ttf_file *ttf_open(const char *path)
• void ttf_close(ttf_file *font)
• const char *ttf_error()
• uint32_t ttf_char2glyf(ttf_file *font,wchar_t c)
• ttf_glyph *ttf_getglyph(ttf_file *font,wchar_t c)
• void ttf_free_glyph(ttf_glyph *glyph)
• void ttf_set_font_size(ttf_font *font,int size)
• void ttf_set_curves_seg(ttf_font *font,int count)
• ttf_bitmap *ttf_render_glyph(ttf_glyph *glyph)

bitmap

bitmap generated by libttf are black and white bitmap composed of an array of uint8_t a value of 0 correspond to background color and a value of 255 correspond to foreground color value in between are a mix used for anti aliasing

support

currently libttf support only font of type truetype outline