Re: [Freetype] Re: ft* and ttf2* commands from Freetype 1, FAQ?

[John Murdie]

On 23 Jan, Antoine Leca wrote:
> First the easiest: the ttf2* command are not part of Freetype, they
> are in fact (various) contributions added to Freetype 1.x, that were
> hosted in freetype*.tar.gz because of no better place. As an aside,
> they have generally not been ported to Freetype 2, so you should
> still use the 1.x library along with the 2.x (as do the major
> distros).

I wonder if the original authors of the ttf* commands could be persuaded
to revise them for Freetype 2, and package and distribute them as, say,
the `TTF tools'?
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John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England