Re: fonts

[raster redhat com]

On 23 Aug, Gleef shouted:
->  
->  
->  On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Soren Harward wrote:
->  
->  > I got xsftt running on my system after downloading a precompiled server
->  > and about a hour of messing kludge-ing (with good instructions, it can be
->  > done in about 10 minutes), but it looks SWEET, and now I have about 1800
->  > fonts on my system instead of just 200-some.
->  > 
->  > Does anyone know of XFree86 4.0 will support TrueType?  It's definitely
->  > an area that should be handled by X and not GNOME, but I think we
->  > (and I bet this would be one area on which KDE agree with us and possibly 
->  > even collaborate) should encourage (and help, if possible) the XFree86
->  > people to add TrueType support because the majority of the Windows world
->  > doesn't even recognize that there are font formats other than TrueType.
->  
->  Actually, I'm hoping XFree86 4.0 will have a separate (i.e. replacable)
->  font engine, so it would be easier to add support for other font formats
->  (eg. OpenType).  Antialiased font support would also be nice to see, as
->  long as you can control it carefully.

you could always use freetype directly like E does to get anti-aliased
fonts..:) then you have control at the aplication level.. :)

->  
->  -Gleef
->  
->  

-- 
--------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------------
raster@rasterman.com       /\___ /\ ___/||\___ ____/|/\___  raster@redhat.com
Carsten Haitzler           | _ //__\\ __||_ __\\ ___|| _ /  Red Hat Advanced
218/21 Conner Drive        || // __ \\_ \ | |   \ _/_|| /   Development Labs
Chapel Hill NC 27514 USA   ||\\\/  \//__/ |_|   /___/||\\   919 547 0012 ext 282
+1 (919) 929 9443, 801 4392   For pure Enlightenment   http://www.rasterman.com/