What is Picture to People?
"Picture to People" (P2P) is a new, free, in development, software for image viewing, 2D drawing, retouching, authoring, composing, filtering, artistic effects and other image processing. It has been made from scratch, including a new platform independent GDI (the core) and several useful screen widgets. No libraries, no imports. At this moment, it's a Windows tool, but ports can come as the time goes. Initial native interface languages will be English and Portuguese, but it's just the beginning.
"Only who makes has true knowledge. Knowledge is control. True power depends on total control. Only who makes from scratch has the real power."
Now I'm working in an engine to render texts from scratch (from TTF fonts) with arbitrary vector based transformations.
Believe or not, it's a VERY hard task. The reason is not the transformations by themselves; the development of a complete font engine is a very complex goal.
In next posts, I will explain superficially why typography is a hard subject (despite the normal problems concerning professional Computer Graphics).
This library is one of the last low level tools I will need to create to use in a new and ambitious high level library. For now, let's keep it like a surprise.
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