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

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

OK, then it wasn't :)

What I'm thinking of had a bunch of vector fonts an a C API to extract 
features.  Can't truthfully remember the license on the fonts.

-dave

Dave McGuire wrote:
>    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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