From: "Steven Taylor" <s_taylor AT primus DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: TrueType fonts in Allegro - HELP!
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> If you just want to use True Type fonts, and you don't need to rescale
> them in real-time, or change their aspect on the fly, you can use
> Allegro's normal text render functions. You only have to provide them
> a font.

You didn't seem to understand the nature of this: The Allegro FONT type is
NOT ideal for holding representations of some TrueType fonts. Go into Word
or WordPad and select the Brush Script font and type some stuff. You will
see what I mean.

By the way, I already have ttf2pcx and it is ok for some simple stuff, but
the memory blowout of using multiple fonts and sizes is absolutely
ridiculous.