On May 5, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: >> IMO, using yet another external library is not worth the inevitable >> support headache just to get some pretty fonts. > >> [1] The build system works just fine on a stock Linux box if you do >> a hand install, but becomes a royal PITA if you try to do anything >> more than that. > > Using their instructions for installation, it also works just fine on > Solaris using SunStudio, and it works just fine on Irix using MipsPro. > Their support is pretty wide, which is more than I can say for a > lot of > software.
And indeed, the freetype stuff that I worked with was your original text2text code that you gave me years ago, Joshua. :) I extended it considerably and had quite a bit of fun with it. Freetype is really good stuff. -Dave > -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user