Re: gEDA-user: pcb: C-in-a-circle copyright?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   It should be fairly trivial to integrate freetype into PCB for  
font management.  It looks daunting at first blush, but it's actually  
a very easy to use library.  That'd get us access to a huge variety  
of fonts.

          -Dave

On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> A while back I located some GPL'd sources for scalable vector  
> fonts.  In
> the form of C data structures (or easily converted thereto) IIRC.
>
> Anyway... can't quite remember where I saw them, but if I dig around I
> might find them again.  In theory, somebody could write a C program to
> turn those into PCB stroke fonts. If somebody is interested, I will do
> the digging.  Otherwise, since I have no time to launch a font  
> project,
> I'll just sleep on this little recollection.
>
> -dave
>
>
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> This FontEdit mode is a nice feature -- Makes me dream about fancy
>>> fonts with serifs. Is it possible to use more than one font in a
>>> layout? Are there fonts available, other than default?
>>
>> Sorry, no.  There is only one font, and it's used for all text within
>> a board.
>>
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007





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