[fitz-dev] imaging on new mobile platform

[Tor Andersson]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:05:35PM -0500, Liam Breck wrote:
> We are prototyping this architecture, both hardware & software, for release
> to researchers and developers in the first half of 03. The software will be
> open source.
> 
> I'm seeking input on what imaging technology to use in the prototype. We
> need scalable text & graphics rendered to remote framebuffers. We are
> currently looking at adapting the GNOME Canvas & libart to output a
> variation of VNC/RFB. This means ripping all the XWin dependencies out of
> Canvas, and doesn't provide decent font capability. Then last night I found
> Fitz... could it be the backend we seek?

It could, but it is still vapourware.

If you need something right now, I suggest you take a look at my library
Charcoal which provides antialiased vector graphics, images, colour
management, transparency, and platform independent font capabilities.

Charcoal renders graphics to an ARGB/BGRA buffer, and only depends on
freetype2 and littlecms. The colour management and dependency on
littlecms is easily removed if you don't need it.

I use it in my small PDF viewer, MuPDF, where it provides rendering
services.

http://www.df.lth.se/~mazirian/download/

/tor