Hey group, I have a wrapper for freetype ready for public consumption. It's pretty dirt simple in terms of features and will be used for text rendering in Chaco. This release works pretty well in my tests. Notes and downloads are available here: http://www.scipy.org/site_content/freetype Also, you can get it from the CVS by checking out either 'chaco' or 'freetype'. The freetype extension is created with weave, but you don't have to have weave to build it -- I've bundled all the files in the source distribution.

From here we need to improve its speed and auto-detection of system fonts/settings. The rendering quality could also use some help.

So, this is a request for help -- especially on Unix platforms. If you have experience with fonts on Unix please help get the system font detection in order. I've only tested on Windows, but I have built/imported it on Linux so you should be able to try things out there without much trouble. Anyone with Freetype experience is invited to improve the rendering quality and add outline caching to improve speed. By the way. Lets keep discussion on scipy-dev@scipy.org for now instead of scipy-chaco. We're not up to the traffic level yet to justify the separate list. Thanks, eric