Re: gEDA-user: PCB: simple FreeType fonts implementation -- update?

[Ineiev <ineiev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/13/2011 01:55 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> It looked to me like most of the work was done in the patch but it was
> left to rot!

In fact it was not. I was rebasing it next time few nights ago.

> Perhaps the only thing left to be done is to embed the
> font files in the .pcb file so that it doesn't depend on system fonts
> (future-proofing files, exchanging between systems, etc.).

This thing was not left. the fonts may be embedded or referenced
(the latter may be a requirement of the font licensing terms);
and system independence was (sort of) ensured with using a fixed
version of FreeType included with the patch set.

What was left is a decent support of combining characters for scripts
like Indic or polytonic Greek; this would probably require building
another library (pango is the nearest candidate).

> Any chance to revive this?

The characters may look great, but nobody really needs it.


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