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Ang Bodhi's FreeType interface.

Compilation Instruction
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1. Build and install libfreetype.a using freetype-2.0.1.tgz

2. Build libFL.a wrapper for libfreetype.a

    $ cd $IV_ROOT/libFL
    $ tar zxvf libFL-src2.tgz
    $ cd src2
    $ make

3. Link libInventor.so against new libFL.a and /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.a 

4. Set FL_FONT_PATH to a directory where TrueType fonts are available.

    $ export FL_FONT_PATH=/usr/share/data/fonts

5. Make symbolic link of TrueType font file to Inventor's font name

    $ cd /usr/share/data/fonts
    $ ln -s times.ttf Times-Roman
    $ ln -s arial.ttf Helvetica
    $ ln -s cour.ttf Utopia-Regular


Change Log
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- Do not free bitmapPtr in flFreeBitmap() as it is not allocated.
- Use the size field of eg. SoFont or SoFontStyle instead of a fixed size of
  32 points in _flFTCreateFont(). By Gerd.
- If one uses many different glyph faces the OS complains about invalid handles
  (at least on Windows). Fix: implemented the destroy font function. By Gerd.
- Port to Win32. By Gerd.