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Jim Aikin <spammable@musicwords.net> wrote:
>How you'd do it, if you were Macromedia, would be (a) load the font into
>your app as a binary resource, (b) create your own engine to read the
>TrueType points and hints out of the binary data and translate them into
>anti-aliased pixels, and then (c) poke the pixels into a bitmap for display.
>I can do (c), and I'm sure I could learn (a) in about one evening, but (b)
>is way, way over my head.

For (b), http://www.freetype.org/

SeanB
