On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > --- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan G. Isaac wrote: >> > This is probably just noise, so forgive me. >> > But I was puzzled by the claim that FreeType >> > cannot be used under Win32 and the claim >> > "Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn't >> > have any external dependencies and can be compiled and >> > installed on its own on any kind of system." >> > http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements >> >> Well, our main Win32 guy, Hans Breuer, said this the last time I >> suggested >> using all FreeType: >> >> ----- >> It is currently broken (just once more: please read 'Heads up on >> Pango Head') >> cause it uses fontconfig which appears to work on X but IMHO needs a >> complete rewrite to fit into the win32 platform. Remember on win32 >> there already is a built-in font configuration which does not require >> >> an *nix like config files but provides device independent font >> matching >> (same code can be used to render to display or printer or to wmf). >> This exactly is what the win32 specific Dia print code does. >> ----- >> >> The "Heads up on Pango Head" mentioned is a thread on gtk-i18n-list >> and >> gtk-devel-list. It's not FreeType itself (sorry if I made it look >> that >> way), but the Pango interface to FreeType. > > This is interesting, > currently I am working on free type, getting other errors, but am > planning on porting it and pango. If dia does not need it, then ok. > Otherwise, there is defoma, the debian font manager. Otherwise I am > willing to give it a try, please tell me more.
As I understand it, Win32 Dia only requires Freetype for EPS export. Printing is done via the native printing interface, and antialiasing via the native font interface. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
