LazFreeType: what changed
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Title: LazFreeType
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| 1 | + | The original FreeType was written in Pascal and it has been resuscitated and placed in Lazarus. | |
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| 3 | + | ## Subversion | |
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| 5 | + | The new LazFreeType project is a part of Lazarus and is located in the directories: | |
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| 7 | + | lazarus/components/lazutils lazarus/lcl/lazfreetypeintfdrawer.pas | |
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| 9 | + | The old source code of FreeType itself can be downloaded from the lazarus-ccr in: | |
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| 11 | + | lazarus-ccr/components/freetypepascal | |
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| 13 | + | ## Example applications | |
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| 15 | + | Located in the Lazarus SVN | |
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| 17 | + | lazarus/examples/lazfreetype/lazfreetypetest.lpi | |
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| 19 | + | One needs to place the fonts; arial.ttf, timesi.ttf, verdana.ttf in the same directory as the executable or else set a path in the lazarus/examples/lazfreetype/mainform.pas unit to the font to use. | |
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| 21 | + | <figure> | |
| 22 | + | <img src="Lazfreetype.PNG" title="Lazfreetype.PNG" /> | |
| 23 | + | <figcaption>Lazfreetype.PNG</figcaption> | |
| 24 | + | </figure> | |
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| 26 | + | ## License | |
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| 28 | + | From: <http://www.freetype.org/license.html> | |
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| 30 | + | FreeType comes with two licenses from which you can choose the one which fits your needs best. | |
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| 32 | + | The FreeType License is the most commonly used one. Full text here: <http://www.freetype.org/FTL.TXT> | |
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| 34 | + | `It is a BSD-style license with a credit clause (and thus compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2).` | |
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| 36 | + | The GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. | |
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| 38 | + | `For all projects which use GPLv2 also or which need a license compatible to the GPLv2.` | |
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| 40 | + | ## See Also | |
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| 42 | + | - [[Custom Drawn Interface]] | |
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| 44 | + | --- | |
| 45 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "LazFreeType", as it stood on 2016-10-28 after a change by E-ric, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 46 | + | Category: FreeType |