As it looks like I might finally have some spare time coming up, I thought I'd start working on my (AllegroGL) projects again. However, I need a decent text rendering library to proceed.

I need at least:

• printf() equivalent functionality.

• Text justification.

• Unicode (UTF-8) support.

• TTF support.

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AllegroGL's built-in text functionality doesn't handle justification (and I haven't managed to wrangle it to do Unicode either) and Glyph keeper had no official support for OpenGL last I checked (which is right before it was left to bit rot). So what else is out there?

[EDIT]
Added the cross-platform requirement I forgot earlier.

Fudgefont if your on linux, I had trouble with building on mingw. I don't know if it meets all of your requirements but must be worth a look.

And of course, it comes with a non-make own build system and Yet Another Dependency (and LF endings in the Readmes). sigh
I'll try to check it out and report back.

[EDIT]
Nope. No dice. Didn't manage to compile it.

Well, that makes me feel better then.

It's a shame because it looks really useful, I did mean to write a makefile, someone must really hate make to use python as a build system which is only likely to work on systems where make would have worked anyway ...

Gnolam:

Fix GlyphKeeper, or FreeType in OpenLayer for us.

I have neither the time nor will to fix a library whose internals I'm unfamiliar with.

I don't use it.

You could just rip the text rendering methods if you wanted...

well I fudged a makefile just to link the examples locally but with mixed results

...oh, I had to change include <> to include "" and add END_OF_MAIN() to examples 2 and 3