At 20:31 23/10/2013 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Just wish to point out that a copy of the whole of freetype is
> bundled with ghostscript, and ghostscript has been routinely built
> for win64 for quite a few years.  For as long as it was, the
> preferred compiler for building ghostscript for windows has always
> been MS VC.

I haven't looked for some time, but AFAIK they are using a very
special set of FreeType source code files, not a vanilla FreeType 2
distribution.

Nope we use a vanilla FreeType, to the best of my knowledge. I'm not dealing with fonts any more though Chris Liddell is, and he may contradict me. But as far as I know we don't have any special patches or anything. We do use FreeType in a slightly unusual way, that is we seem to be the only people using certain of its features, but nothing that is not supported in the current code.

Note that on Linux its possible to build Ghostscript so that it will use the system shared library for FT, I believe that a number of Linux distributions do this (though we would rather people didn't)

                    Ken


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