[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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