Re: [ft-devel] The Ftview

[Werner LEMBERG]

> When I complied the Ftview project ( in the cvs ), I use it like this:
>
> ftview -e unic -f 23478 75 mingliu.ttc
>
> I always got the error:
>
> could not allocate display surface
>
>      error = 0x0000

Unfortunately, I don't have mingliu.ttc found in the internet, only
mingliu.ttf, and the above works just fine on my GNU/Linux box (it
correctly displays `家'.

> I have debug it, and I found it return errors when it run the code
> `error = FT_Stream_New( library, args, &stream );' which is located
> in function FT_Open_Face.

Note that you have to use the ft2demos CVS together with the freetype2
CVS!  It doesn't work with FreeType 2.1.10.


    Werner