[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

I also was confusing d.text.freetype with d.font.freetype.

AFAIC, all such text should be rendered separately from the geospatial data
itself. That is, fonts and decorations should be rendered as a separate
layers (as they do now). Currently, the only way to have them produce
high-quality output is to render them in the GUI (e.g., as TclTk postscript
objects). Could the relevant d.* commands (e.g., d.legend, d.text, d.label)
be changed to optionally output postscript some something that would scale
and display well? Or does this need to be done in the GUI?

Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 21:07:20 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>>> There should be an option to set the default font. You would need to
>>>> reset the font after calling anything which might change it (which
>>>> includes all command layers, as there's no reliable way to determine
>>>> whether a particular command will change the font).
>>> 
>>> I'd only put it at the startup/d.erase stage. If the user wants to call
>>> something that changes the font, then let them have that control.
>> 
>> That can be done now--albeit manually--by changing the listing in
>> options.tcl. It is a relatively straightforward project to create an
>> interactive window that would let users change some of the settings in
>> options.tcl.
> 
> I'm referring to the font used for text in modules such as d.text,
> d.legend etc.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>