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Re: text rendering problems

To: Jonathan Lim <jlim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: text rendering problems
From: Mark Montague <monty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:44:00 -0800
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In-reply-to: Jonathan Lim's message of "Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:25:57 -0800 (PST)"
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Jonathan Lim <jlim@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Refer to the note in the README.FIRST file about using the default
> font library versus the FreeType interface.  If you're using the
> latter, try setting the environment variable FL_DEBUG to 1 before
> running the program. 
> 
> I'm using freetype-2.1.3-6 on Red Hat Linux 9 and it works fine.

Thanks. It looks like this system just didn't have appropriate fonts--
when I copied some over and made the links described in
inventor/libFL/ang/README things seem to work OK.

It seems like it might be desirable to print out a warning if it can't
find a font, rather than just silently failing to draw anything...

Anyway, thanks for the pointers.

                        - M

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