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Typography Scale Size Vertext (Read 1013 times)

maranr

Typography Scale Size Vertext
Apr 16^th, 2008, 1:46pm

Hello,
I've only been working with Processing for 2 month and I have some doubts:
1)I've understood that the fonts *.vlw are bitmap. However I’ve seen these other type of font *.vlw.gz, are they the same? How do you obtain them? Processing only lets you create *.vlw fonts, do it? Are they svg format? I think no but I’m not completely sure.
2)I want to zoom text and figures such as rectangles at the same time. My first attempt was to increase the size of the letter using the function textFont(aFont,aSize*f) (previously I created a font with a size higher than the one I want to use). But I’ve read it isn’t an optimal solution.
3)Then I saw the example “kinetic type” I’m not sure if there is a lot of improvement.
4)And finally looking into your forum and I found the Vertex library, is it really useful for what I’m trying to obtain?

Scott Murray Full Member Offline Posts: 117 San Francisco	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2008, 9:02pm I would be interested in a solution to this as well. So far, the best option I've found is to start your "zoom" transition with a higher-res bitmap and then scale it up to the right size. (For example, use a 72 point .vlw, but displayed at about 12 pt, then "zooming" in to eventually be 72 pt.)

maranr YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #2 - Apr 18^th, 2008, 8:47am Thanks, in fact it is what I did but I read it wasn't an optimal solution. I want to make some tests in order to control if rendering is slower. What I checked is that working with font.vlw.gz the rendering is faster and the resolution better, do you know why?

Scott Murray Full Member Offline Posts: 117 San Francisco	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #3 - Apr 18^th, 2008, 3:08pm Sorry, don't know. I'm not familiar with .vlw.gz files.

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #4 - Apr 18^th, 2008, 3:37pm vlw.gz files are just vlw files compressed with the gzip program. There really shouldn't be any speed increase from using one over the other.

mc_gee YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #5 - May 4^th, 2008, 8:28pm textmode(SCREEN) might help. there is an option somewhere to use native fonts. google it this will result in vectors as opposed to bitmaps m

maranr

Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext
Reply #6 - May 5^th, 2008, 9:14am

First, thank you for your suggestion.

I read about textmode(SCREEN) it can help if you don't have to make a zoom. But as fas as I can understand using this text mode you can't change the size font. I don't know if it is very expensive to load different type of letters, in this case the same type with different sizes.

I'll go on with this subject, so any advice is wellcome.

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #7 - May 5^th, 2008, 10:47am There are several libs that can load ttf fonts as vector. (http://processing.org/reference/libraries/index.html#typography_geometry)
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #8 - May 5^th, 2008, 12:28pm Geomerative library is best for that. Will let you load TTF fonts. F

maranr YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: Typography Scale Size Vertext Reply #9 - May 5^th, 2008, 1:14pm Thank you I really think this can help me.

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