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javismiles wrote:do you mean running Mac OS?
and the previous one that didnt work was it in linux?
so are you saying for you it works well on Mac OS, but not on Linux?

Same system for both fonts. The first one had TTF and not ttf and I had not noticed. But it failed. I had not tried it with ttf. The second one I noticed had TTF and I changed it to ttf and it worked fine. I don't know if would work or not with TTF.

Mac is BSD Unix (not Linux or Windows).

I do not have a Linux system.

What version of freetype delegate are you running. Perhaps you need to upgrade freetype.

see http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html

great news
yes they updated the font on 29 of december of 2010,
i tried the update and it works!!
so the previous font which i had downloaded in november didnt work on linux
thats the one that the other page has
but the one updated by dafont on 29 december 2010, work!
wow

so i guess for the other 3 that dont work i will search for updates as well
thank you my friend
jav

never heard of this freetype thing ( i constantly discover how much i have to learn ) )
is this something that linux has , that can be updated, and which affects rendering of ttf fonts?

in any case the font works now after the december 29 update by dafont
now i have to see if for the other 3 fonts that dont work i can find updates like that also

What is FreeType 2?

FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.

Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, ‘hollowing’, etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of font files.

FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.

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It is a delegate library that you install before installing IM if you don't already have it.

convert -list configure

Look at the line starting with DELEGATES, it should list freetype.

Looks OK to me on Slackware (Linux) 13.0 x86_64 with Version: ImageMagick 6.6.7-10 2011-03-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Command was: Result is:
Cheers,
Peter