fractalus opened this issue on Sep 16, 2006 ยท 2 posts
fractalus posted Sat, 16 September 2006 at 12:03 PM
I've just released glyph 1.0, a tool for extracting TrueType curve data and importing it into Ultra Fractal. You can get it here:
http://www.damienmjones.com/glyph/
Note that you'll need to update your formulas as well, since glyph requires a rendering formula which has been added to the database.
glyph builds on the curve-rendering techniques I recently added to DeluxeClipping, but whereas DeluxeClipping permits only twenty curve control points per transform, glyph's rendering formula accomodates up to 400. This allows it to handle all but the most intricate of characters. Doing so, of course, is not enormously fast; glyph is not intended to be a wholesale bulk text importer, but rather a way for you to use a few characters in your images as accents.
glyph does not import entire fonts, but only the characters you select. Therefore you may share UPRs created with glyph, subject to the limitations of copyrights on the fonts you're importing from. See the glyph page for more information on font copyrights.
Although I'm releasing glyph now, there are more things I would like to do with it in the future. So this is not "all" there is.