Re: [ft-devel] freetype utils - how do I compile them?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > > 2. after I ran ../ft2demos/bin/ftview, it threw off the error
> > > message I cited. I gave it the correct path to the font file, and it
> > > worked.
> > 
> > ???  Did it work now or not?
> 
> ftview -r 100 -m 'some text' 14 tahoma.ttf - didn't work,

Both ftview and tahoma.ttf are in the same directory?  It would be
very strange if *that* fails.

> > > 3. ftview can't show me Cyrillic symbols, just abracadabra.
> > 
> > Command line option `-e unic' should give access to a Unicode cmap.
> > Or do you mean something else?
> 
> address@hidden:~$ ftview -r 100 -m 'русские буквы Т Т Т' 14 \
>                  /home/ajaxas/.fonts/tahoma.ttf -e unic

Ah, see this bug report:

   https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?18825


      Werner