Re: FreeType looses font styles on save/load (with patch)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Harvey and Su Thompson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently using dia-0.90 to produce some UML class and sequence
> diagrams for my MSc -- I was recommended it by a work colleage and it
> seems to do exactly what I need.  I'm running on SuSE 8.0 and compiled
> with FreeType support, since it SEGV as described elsewhere in the
> mailing list.
>
> Anyways, I've noticed it doesn't save the font styles for diagrams.
> Mostly notably abstract classes loose their italics (all the fonts loose
> their boldness which is less important).  Quick glance shows that this is
> FreeType specific, and I've included a small patch to save/load the
> style, which seems to work for me.
>
> Keep up the good work!  With this and OpenOffice I'm free at last!!!

Thank you for the heads-up.  Since we have changed to GTK 2.0 in CVS, the
Freetype stuff has disappeared (thankfully), and the new code preserves
font style nicely.

-Lars

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