Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Chinese fonts

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:26:23PM +0800, Song Huang wrote:
> Dears,
> 
> I fixed this problum of zh_tw.ttf, I don't known what differ from SDL,
> but I change the fontforge script to keep all orig font's properties.
> 
> pls kindly to confirm the fixed, and put the zh_tw.ttf into tuxpaint 0.9.16
> release,
> thanks~!!
Hi song,

I can confirm that the problem is fixed on Windows using SDL_ttf-2.0.8
and freetype-2.2.1,

regards,
John.

> 
> Best regards,
> song.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Popplewell" <jo...@jo...>
> To: "Discussion list for Tux Paint developers"
> <tux...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Chinese fonts
> 
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 04:12:19PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> > > > <snip!>
> > > > I appreciate this.  I cannot, of course, make the SDL packages revert
> to
> > > > an earlier version in Debian.  So for Chinese to work in Debian, we
> have
> > > > to move forward starting with what's there now.
> > > Sure, I understand.
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, I've built similar versions to the ones in Debian:
> > >
> > > freetype-2.2.1
> > > SDL_ttf-2.0.7
> > > SDL_ttf-2.0.8
> > > with this patch (so that SDL_ttf builds):
> > >
> http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/SDL_ttf-2.0.7-noftinternals.patch
> > >
> > > and the problem with SDL_ttf-2.0.8 and the small zh_tw.ttf font remains.
> > > If I use the original zh_tw.ttf (13MB) it works fine.
> > >
> > > At least it's probably not a freetype problem :-)
> > >
> > An additional data-point. If I use the 'showfont' test program that
> > comes with SDL_ttf-2.0.8:
> >
> > $ showfont c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf 32 "Hello world."
> > Font is generally 36 big, and string is 36 big
> > [displays correctly]
> >
> > $ showfont ../tuxpaint/fonts/locale/zh_tw.ttf 32 "Hello world."
> > Font is generally 1 big, and string is 1 big
> > [displays the top row of pixels only]
> >
> > regards,
> > John.
> >
> >
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