In Processing, by default, fonts are actually bitmaps generated at a given size from the chosen font. So there is no vector information there. One advantage is speed, another is avoiding (more or less) font distribution issues.

To use vector fonts, I suppose you can use java.awt.Font class. It has createGlyphVector() methods, which return a GlyphVector object. The java.awt.font.GlyphVector class has a methods returning a java.awt.Shape object.
This is theoretical knowledge taken out of JavaDoc, I never used these yet...

More info (as I research the topic): Google gave me two interesting files: http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/david/reed03/lectures/CharacterImage.java (a sample Java program) and http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/david/reed03/notes/chap3.pdf (Chapter 3: Beginning graphics: Working with shapes) which gives some explanations (how to use PathIterator to access primitive shapes within the Shape of a Glyph).

I reall don't get how to extract the numbers which i can use to e.g draw the outline of the font.

Here is what i do:

import net.nexttext.*;
import net.nexttext.behaviour.*;
import net.nexttext.behaviour.control.*;
import net.nexttext.behaviour.standard.*;
import net.nexttext.behaviour.dform.*;
import net.nexttext.processing.*;

Font typo;
TextObjectGlyph  textObjectGlyph;
Vector v = new Vector();

void setup(){

...
typo = book.loadFont("HelveticaRdBd.ttf");
textObjectGlyph = new TextObjectGlyph("I", typo);

}

void draw(){

 v = textObjectGlyph.contours;
 println(v.size());
 for(int i = 0; i < v.size();i++){
   println(v.get(i));
 }

}


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What i get printed:
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1
[0] 0
[1] 1
[2] 2
[3] 3
[4] 4
[5] 5
[6] 5
[7] 6
[8] 7
[9] 7
[10] 8
[11] 9
[12] 10
[13] 11
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How can I use this?
Are this Vectors (x/y) or something?

nah, check out geomerative: it has all you need.

http://ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/

F

Great Guys, thanks a lot!