[vtk-developers] vtkfreetype update
David Thompson
dcthomp at sandia.gov
Mon Jan 5 18:32:40 EST 2009
> VTK CVS has freetype 2.3.5. 2.3.6 included security updates. 2.3.7 is
> current. The only thing stopping me from updating VTK is the fact that
> 2.3.6/.7 render differently and break some VTK unit tests. The results
> are visibly worse. The other day, I debugged it the old fashioned way,
> and regressed through freetype CVS. A bug fix of theirs caused our problems:
>
> <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19976>
>
> But now I'm stuck again. The freetype guys (understandably) need the
> font. But VTK's fonts are in some wacky C++ format.
There are pfb files in VTK/Rendering/fonts for the fonts that VTK uses.
They get turned into face_ZZZ[_{bold,italic}].cxx by the bin2c.tcl
script in the same directory. Sending them the pfb files should be fine.
David
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