Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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




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