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Vector fonts. (Read 2920 times)

Woodlouse YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36	Vector fonts. Nov 10^th, 2009, 11:27am Hi I don't really understand how fonts work in Processing, I looked at createFont and loadFont, but i'm still pretty confused. I'm trying to make a bit of 3D work, but when I move my text 'closer' it becomes really pixelated. How do I create a vector font that will stop this from happening? Thanks!

PhiLho

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #1 - Nov 10^th, 2009, 12:28pm

Vector fonts are available only with JAVA2D renderer (since that's Java that does the hard work of parsing the TTF file and drawing the characters).
From "createFont()" reference page: "With the P2D, P3D, and OPENGL renderer settings, the bitmapped version will be used."
There might be libraries allowing to use vector fonts in 3D, I don't know.

jeffg Senior Member Offline Posts: 472	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #2 - Nov 10^th, 2009, 1:37pm Take a look at Vertext http://www.ghost-hack.com/p5/vertext/ V also wrote something.. http://www.pixelnerve.com/v/2009/03/08/text-render-for-javaprocessing-using-opengl/ Take a look at this thread. http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1213559873/15

Woodlouse YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #3 - Nov 11^th, 2009, 5:07am Ace, that Vertext looks perfect, I have downloaded it, so to make it work/load into my sketches, do I just place the whole file into the 'libraries' folder inside Processing application? W.

Woodlouse

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #4 - Nov 12^th, 2009, 4:03am

I've tried to apply Vertext using the guide, but I keep getting an error saying " the function (P5Extend( MY SKETCH NAME )) does not exist". Any ideas what P5Extend is? Thanks.

Quote:

import flux.vertext.*;
Vertext myFont;

//PFont.list();
void setup(){
size(200, 200, OPENGL);
P5Extend(this);
   myfont = new Vertext("ArialBold", 10, 0);

}

void draw(){

    myFont.text("Hello World?", 100, 100);

}

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #5 - Nov 12^th, 2009, 5:23am P5Extend is a class, not a function. The example on the home page shows it is used like: `P5Extend.register(this);`

Woodlouse

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #6 - Nov 12^th, 2009, 10:50am

Hmm, something still seems wrong here, not sure what doesnt like!?

Quote:

import flux.vertext.*;
import processing.opengl.*;

Vertext myBigFont;

void setup(){
size(200, 200, OPENGL);
P5Extend.register(this);
   Vertext myBigfont = new Vertext("ArialBold", 10, 0);

}

void draw(){
background(255);
    Vertext myBigFont.text("Hello World?", 100, 100);

}

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #7 - Nov 12^th, 2009, 12:03pm You should use declaration (pre-pending with class name) only once, at global level.

Woodlouse YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #8 - Nov 13^th, 2009, 11:27am Sorry i'm afraid I'm a complete novice to coding and Processing, can you put that in simpleton-speak for me please?

blindfish

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #9 - Nov 13^th, 2009, 11:35am

Once you've declared an object as 'Vertext' at the beginning of your programme you don't need to declare it as Vertext again when you assign it a value or call a method on it:

Code:

Vertext myBigFont;

 void setup(){
 size(200, 200, OPENGL);
P5Extend.register(this);
   myBigfont = new Vertext("ArialBold", 10, 0);
}

void draw(){
 background(255);
    myBigFont.text("Hello World?", 100, 100);
    
}

Otherwise I think it gets treated as though you're declaring a new object whose scope is limited to the function in which you declare it...

Where is the what if the what is in why?

Woodlouse

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #10 - Nov 19^th, 2009, 4:10am

I still haven't found anything to help with this, has anyone got a sketch using verText that I could try pasting in in case its something to-do with my libaries?

Quote:

import flux.vertext.*;
import processing.opengl.*;

Vertext myBigFont;

void setup(){
size(200, 200, OPENGL);
P5Extend.register(this);

myBigfont = new Vertext("Times-Roman", 10, 0);

}

void draw(){
background(255);
    myBigFont.text("Hello World?", 100, 100);

}

koogy

Re: Vector fonts.
Reply #11 - Nov 19^th, 2009, 4:46am

that works for me, but even with a font size of 72

myBigFont = new Vertext("Times-Roman", 72, 128);

the text is *tiny*. (so tiny it's easy to miss, try a longer string)

> Ace, that Vertext looks perfect, I have downloaded it, so to make it work/load into my sketches, do I just place the whole file into the 'libraries' folder inside Processing application? W.

unzip the file into the libraries directory under the directory containing your sketches (you may need to create the libraries directory)

my sketchbook is here:

C:\Documents and Settings\koogy\My Documents\Processing

and i've unzipped into libraries there so that the vertext jar, for instance, is

C:\Documents and Settings\koogy\My Documents\Processing\libraries\vertext\library\vertext.jar

flourish YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Re: Vector fonts. Reply #12 - Mar 25^th, 2010, 8:41am Same problem here. I guess something changed inside processing since vertext is some years old now :/

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