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diff --git a/graphics/quesoglc/pkg-descr b/graphics/quesoglc/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..519776dd3b6e --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/quesoglc/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +The OpenGL Character Renderer (GLC) is a state machine that provides +OpenGL programs with character rendering services via an application +programming interface (API). + +The character rendering services provided by GLC has some significant +advantages over platform specific interface such as GLX or WGL: + +1. The GLC API is platform independent. Since most nontrivial GL + applications render characters, GLC is an important step toward the + goal of truly portable GL applications. +2. The GLC is simpler to use. Only two lines of GLC commands are + required to prepare for rendering characters. +3. GLC provides more ways to exploit the rendering power of OpenGL. + For example, a glyph can be drawn as a bitmap, a set of lines, a + set of triangles, or a textured rectangle. +4. GLC provides better support for glyph transformations. For + example, GLC supports rotated text, which is unavailable in GLX. +5. GLC provides better support for the large coded character set + defined by the standards ISO/IEC 10646:2003 and Unicode 4.0.1 + +QuesoGLC is a free (as in free speech) implementation of the GLC. +QuesoGLC is based on the FreeType library, provides Unicode support +and is designed to be easily ported to any platform that supports +both FreeType and the OpenGL API. + +WWW: http://quesoglc.sourceforge.net/ |