I'm having big issues with cross platform font rendering. The line height, the font width, the letterspacing and everything you can think of is different all the time. Even on the same platform with different settings of font smoothing the result is different. For my application i need to be able to scale up the text and still have just a few pixels precision everywhere, but just a single pixel error in the linewidth can accumulate huge errors in the end.
So i've decided to try my own font rendering because i can render lines and stuff accuratly across all platforms. For this i need font-coordinates/curves in an easy to parse format. Preferably with just one line as width, the easier the better. Where can i find this? Preferably free and with as big character set as possible.
An example of what i'm looking for: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/hershey/