Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 4, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>> I might volunteer to go through
>>> the alphabet and produce a ttf version of the geda font.
>>
>> I'll start doing the conversion, if I get a note, that a ttf  
>> version of
>> the font would help get the cairo version of gschem up to speed.
>
> I honestly don't know. It won't help over the non gschem-font case,
> which you've got checked out now. It may help acceptance of the cairo
> code.
>
> If you know of some documentation to the .ttf format, I could knock  
> up a
> conversion to run based on libgeda reading its own fonts and dumping
> data.

   I don't know anything about cairo, but the Freetype library makes  
short work of dealing with TrueType fonts.  I'd assume it wouldn't be  
too difficult to use it to generate the glyphs and hand them to the  
cairo subsystem.

            -Dave
>


-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL




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