[fpc-pascal] Font reading library

Helmut Hartl helmut.hartl at firmos.at
Tue Apr 12 13:33:35 CEST 2011


Am 12.04.11 11:03, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
> Hello,
>
> I fixed the compilation of the old freetype and put it in the
> Lazarus-ccr for now. Maybe it can be added to FPC later on if it
> proves a good substitute:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Freetype#Download
>
nice
>> It's not maintained anymore - but imho has nothing todo with fornix ?
> > From what I saw fornix has nothing to do with it. Probably they just
> used this library in one of their projects, like X11 uses.
>
>> (Have a look at : http://www.freetype.org/freetype1/index.html,
>> and the name of the authors ...)
> What's special with the name of the authors
nothing - but a name compare should have revealed the strong indication
that fornix has nothing to do with it (which i cannot comment as i dont 
care about fornix anyway)
and that freetype2 originated from freetype1 which was written in pascal 
years ago.
(as you already know)

helmut



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