>As for font support under Windows. Yes you can use GDI for font rendering, but >I highly recommend using freetype.dll even under Windows. >It has more features than GDI font support and the quality is better too.
Is it the fonts causing the dependency then? I have freetype.dll included in the directory with my programs, do I need to include other files / dlls if I want them to run without installing anything? the programs I am getting the dependency issue with are based on and including Graeme's original sample program Agg2DColsole.dpr , they use: Ptcgraph, Ptccrt, Sysutils, Fpimage, Fpwritepng, Agg_2d, Agg_Basics James -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 2:25 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph On 2017-06-05 03:12, Stefan V. Pantazi wrote: > In my experience, the one dependency that AggPas has potential to fail > may be related to the freetype library. If you plan to run your app on > windows only, then you can turn freetype off and AggPas will happily > use windows font libraries. Search for the AGG2D_USE_FREETYPE define > and comment it out. Correct, though even font support is optional in AggPas. So if you don't render text via AggPas, it has zero dependency - everything is done in pure Object Pascal code. As for font support under Windows. Yes you can use GDI for font rendering, but I highly recommend using freetype.dll even under Windows. It has more features than GDI font support and the quality is better too. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
