[GRASS-dev] iconv a required dependency for using Freetype?

[Wolf Bergenheim]

Yeah I just noticed. Good work Paul! So there really isn't any need
then? I mean most people can use some native way of getting information
about a font. Or do you still see a need for this?

--Wolf

On 11.05.2007 18:40, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> Looks like Paul Kelly took care of the ultimate goal - figuring out all
> the face indexes and generating a fontcap/ftcap file from that info.
> 
> A command to get info on individual font files might still be handy - a
> user could check a new font before manually adding it to their fontcap
> file.  I'd say one or two switches could be used to output the font info
> in either of the fontcap/ftcap formats (when they settle down).
> 
> On May 11, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I'm still offering. Now that I only have one geostatistics report
>> to write I have finally some time to do other things too. Infact I think
>> I can start it this weekend, and I think I can have it done by the end
>> of next week.
>>
>> So I'm thinking by default d.freetype.info should print something in a
>> nice human readable way, a bit like ftinfo does. And then if given a
>> switch -s (for script) it will output a comma separated list instead.
>> How does that sound?
>>
>> --Wolf
>>
>> On 08.05.2007 17:19, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> On May 8, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Paul Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> Wolf offered to work out this when he has time (in another thread I
>>> started for that topic).  I was thinking that it might be useful to do a
>>> d.freetype.info module that mkftcap could use.  Users might want/need to
>>> see info about a font also.
> 
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