Question / Help Text (GDI+) on Linux?

[brucehvn]

I'm new to OBS and I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. I saw in the docs that the Text Freetype source is only there for backwards compatibility, but I don't see the Text (GDI+) source. Is that not available on Linux?

 

[Tuna]

GDI+ is a Windows API - so no.

 

[Skelmy]

Hi,

There is an open sourced implementation of GDI+ for Linux, Windows, MAC, as listed here on Github.

GitHub - mono/libgdiplus: C-based implementation of the GDI+ API

C-based implementation of the GDI+ API. Contribute to mono/libgdiplus development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

So it's not strictly limited to being a Windows API, although it may have started off life as a Windows API, this is a Mono and it's a cross platform, open source .NET framework, as stated on their website, so can easily be implemented by the OBS dev team for GDI Text in the Linux and MAC version of OBS.

 

[Skelmy]

I have made a suggestion in the OBS ideas section, please can you vote for it and please send it to anyone who you think would vote for it.

GDI Text with GDI+ Mono through libgdiplus · OBS Studio Ideas and Suggestions

Implementing GDI Text with GDI+ Mono through their libgdiplus as listed on their Github https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus Seeing as Mono is a cross p

ideas.obsproject.com

Thanks