use truetype fonts in c++ programs

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#1 July 1, 2012

[COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]Hi Dears, I have a big problem that I couldn't find its solution in the net, I 'm going to create an application via Xlib and I wanna use installed truetype ubuntu fonts in it,in c++ , but i don't know how can it do it without create them in my source just with show sme text in my created window.

yours Sincerely, pooneh ,[/COLOR]

#2 January 11, 2013

I have a similar issue working with Ubuntu as I was troubled in developing Panda3d using C++ .I retried this with installing Panda3d SDK. I was glad that this at least worked in Python. Please help me fix this with C++.