On 11 May 2001, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
>> Le Fri, May 11, 2001, � 10:33:27AM -0500, Lars Clausen a �crit:
>>
>>> I disagree on this; I think we should get some better font support
>>> soon, even if it means that some documents will use replacement fonts
>>> when moved between machines. PostScript output can just have the font
>>> embedded.
>>
>> How do you retrieve the PS fonts' outlines ? (assuming we'll let TTF
>> aside for the moment) ? How do you even ask the font serving service
>> (I'm deliberately avoiding the term "font server", for obvious reasons)
>> for where the file are stored, or if that service is not located on the
>> same machine as dia or as the display, how do you download these files ?
> [...]
>
> I did a little digging, and found the FreeType library
> <URL:www.freetype.org>. It allows manipulating various vector font
> formats, including Type 1 and TrueType.
Looking through the mail archives for PostScript output, I notice that the
FreeType library does string rotation. We want that, too.
-Lars
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