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

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Freetype doesn't really meet your earlier description...it doesn't  
come with any fonts at all; it uses TrueType (and possibly other)  
fonts in files.

           -Dave

On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> You know, it may have been freetype that I was thinking of.
> -dave
>
> Dave McGuire wrote:
>>    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
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Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007





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