Roll your own
- Hard way
- Method
- decompose shapes to beziers or line layouts
- drawing beziers
- moveto curveto - see curves ahead develop article
- There are a bazillion references on how to convert quadratic to cubic beziers
- Drawing line layouts
- use space-hack, or GXFlattenFont as documented in develop to get fonts in stream
- space-hack lets LW driver manage fonts
- GXFlattenFont lets you specify encoding
- decompose into glyphs
- use xshow or xyshow to place each glyph
- Benefit(s)
- Total control
- Works today - currently in Multi-Ad Creator 2 (ships in Sept?)
- fonts are fonts, curves are curves, "sensible" postscript
- Problem(s)
- Hard, unless you're already making PS.
- Transfer modes are way-hard