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).
> 
> Next, about the ft* test programs, since they are only that, test/demo
> programs, we cut them from the main archive, mainly because they vary
> much less and they will make the weight of the archives much bigger,
> particularly since the release are not completely 

> Hope it helps,
> 
> Antoine
> 

Many thanks, Antoine. Your `aside' above is the crucial bit of
information I was missing.

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John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England