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Bug 2068

Summary: make light ttf version without libfreetype dependence
Product: SDL_ttf Reporter: Ivan <lyapunov>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: WAITING --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2 CC: denis
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: All   

Description Ivan 2013-08-28 10:47:02 UTC 
based on font stash
https://github.com/apetrone/font-stash

or better ofxFontStash
https://github.com/armadillu/ofxFontStash

this will be very useful for embedded devices, like android or ios
Comment 1 Ivan 2013-08-28 12:29:08 UTC 
Also this kind of work could be interesting
http://fractiousg.blogspot.ru/2012/04/rendering-text-in-opengl-on-android.html
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2017-09-10 05:49:05 UTC 
It looks like you'd really want to use stb_truetype.h directly:
https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h

I don't have time to work on this myself, but you're welcome to contribute a patch!