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Re: filling glyphs

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In article <4d4a80b0$0$2443$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>,
 emilio <ew@gryftechnologia.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone, do you know what is the best algorithm to fill object 
> which contour consists of lines and bezier curves. I use the flood 
> fill algorithm based on Smith, but it does not work with small 
> letters because in places where there is a narrow passage it stop.Of 
> course, I tried to start filling in a few places but still remain 
> unfilled place. Maybe you know some other algorithms that work with 
> these types of objects. How it is done eg in Corel?

Have you looked into GlyphVector [1]. The getOutline() method returns a 
Shape suitable for Graphics2D's fill() method. For smaller sizes, I 
usually rely on TextLayout [2], as the associated FontRenderContext can 
handle (possibly platform-dependent) anti-aliasing and fractional 
metrics. 

[1]<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/font/GlyphVector.html>
[2]<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/font/TextLayout.html>

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John B. Matthews
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