[ xdvi-Feature Requests-3511443 ] t1lib to libfreetype2 transition

Feature Requests item #3511443, was opened at 2012-03-26 07:28
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Norbert Preining (norbusan)
Assigned to: Paul Vojta (vojta)
Summary: t1lib to libfreetype2 transition

Initial Comment:
Dear all,
it seems that t1lib is not developed anymore, and distributions are starting to drop t1lib completely, which will create problems for xdvi in the long run. See for example the following to links:
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/t1lib
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637040

Is there any chance that a transition to libfreetype2 is going to happen?

Thanks a lot

Norbert
(TeX Live team and Debian Dev for TeX Live)

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>Comment By: Paul Vojta (vojta)
Date: 2013-03-30 22:54

Message:
A beta version of xdvik that uses freetype2 instead of t1lib has now been
committed to the CVS repository.

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Comment By: Norbert Preining (norbusan)
Date: 2013-03-05 14:45

Message:
Hi Paul,
thanks a lot, that are good news. But be warned that the TeX Live source
freeze is upcoming. Would be great, though!

If you need any testing, let me know.

Norbert

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Comment By: Paul Vojta (vojta)
Date: 2013-03-05 12:49

Message:
I am still committed to adding freetype2 support, and will have it ready in
time for TL 2013.

I've been busy with work lately and haven't touched xdvi since last summer,
but things are less busy now, and I plan to return to xdvi this week.

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Comment By: Norbert Preining (norbusan)
Date: 2013-03-03 23:34

Message:
Hi Petr,

is there any progress here? As said, I have several patches that were
written for pxdvi (the Japanese variant) that implement freetype2 support
already.

How is it with TeX Live 2013 ...?

Let me know if you need anything.

Norbert

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Comment By: Norbert Preining (norbusan)
Date: 2012-04-01 17:42

Message:
Hi

Good to hear, thanks. I guess we have to wait.

BTW, have you been contacted concerning inclusion of Japanese support
(pxdvi)? They also included some changes for freetype2, so it might be
useful to do all in one go, if you agree to merge the pxdvi patches. I can
send you all of them, they are in my tlptexlive repository and build
script.

Thanks

Norbert

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Comment By: Paul Vojta (vojta)
Date: 2012-04-01 10:24

Message:
It's in the works.  For some time I've had freetype2 support in an
unreleased version of plain xdvi, but there were some things that I wanted
to add before releasing it.

So this should happen in the near future.  But not before the code freeze
for TL 2012 :-)

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