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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I just committed some basic CMake support to that repo, it should
compile on all platforms provided you have the freetype and boost
libraries installed (I don't know which minimum versions are
required). It compiled successfully on Debian stretch with boost 1.61
and freetype 2.6.3.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Michael Steinberg <michsteinb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Jean-Pierre,
>>
>> Could you tell us more about this command-line tool?
>
> the tool uses the MSDF-library by Viktor Chlumsky, adds a rectangle bin
> packing algorithm (max rectangles global) to pack the texture atlas and
> outputs in the format that is used by KiCad currently. Given that, for full
> support (Better character placement, maybe even kerning?) I would like to
> cooperate with Orson to make the necessary changes to the current OpenGL
> string code.
> I uploaded the Visual Studio project for the tool under MIT-License (the
> library by Viktor Chlumsky uses that license) to
> https://github.com/decimad/msdf-atlasgen .
>
> Cheers!
> Michael
>
>
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