Allegro 5 font display problems

Question

Using Allegro 5 (5.0.10-1), for some reason text is displayed in a really strange way - it's cut off at certain parts and letters are sometimes not on the same line. See the image below.

I'm loading the font like this:

this->font = al_load_font ("fonts/OpenSans-Regular.ttf", 12, 0)

And drawing the text like this:

al_draw_text (this->font, al_map_rgb (0xE0, 0xE0, 0xE0),
    20.5, 4.5, 0, this->lbl.c_str ());

where lbl holds the text I want to output.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Answer 1

It looks like this because you try to draw it at non-integer coordinates (20.5,4.5). Generally, you should only draw text on integer coordinates to avoid this sort of problem.