[osg-users] Trouble Drawing Text in Arabic

[Erik Hensens]

ehensens wrote:
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> Jan Ciger wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Chris Hanson < ()> wrote:
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> > > Is this something osgCairo ( https://github.com/cubicool/osgcairo (https://github.com/cubicool/osgcairo) ) might solve for you?​
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> > Love that TODO in the README!
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> > However, be aware that when I have played with Pango/Cairo for OSG some years ago for one of our projects, these libraries had major issues with multithreading in OSG, resulting in randomly corrupted text/textures. I haven't tried osgCairo, though, perhaps it fixes that problem.
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> Thank you both very much for your responses! Also, Jan, thanks for the warning given your previous experiences with these libraries.
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> I will do some experimentation with both osgPango and osgCairo to see if this fixes my issues.  8)


Thanks everyone for your contributions. Just wanted to update this thread; I ended up rendering the text directly to a 2D GtkDrawingArea using Pango and Cairo, creating a bitmap, and then showing the bitmap on the scene under a billboard heads up camera.

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