The Littlest CPU Rasterizer
i was trying to build a word cloud algorithm and then I had a question: how do you rasterize letter shapes?<p>I looked at pyCairo but I couldn't figure out how to use it.  
<a href="http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/3/" rel="nofollow">http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/3/</a><p>I asked on StackOverflow no answer
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21915335/getting-the-bitmask-of-a-text-string-in-python" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21915335/getting-the-bitm...</a><p>i found the true-type format shape files and extracted polygons from those - which i also don't know how to rasterize.<p>i know this not really a response to the posted link - which is very low level and interesting - but maybe someone here knows an answer.