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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Type1 font problem (Was: Re: mozilla-devel problems)
Message-ID:  <20021026125528.O93068-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021026105234.GA87744@tara.freenix.org>

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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Ollivier Robert:
> > During its reading of all fonts available, it get a segv...
> > Any idea ?
>
> Found that at least one of the Type1 fonts I had (installed by XFree86) does
> bad things to freetype and it was getting a segv.
>
> The interesting point is that it happens even if you have disabled the loading
> of the type1 module. Having the font in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/type1 is
> enough...

Im my many hours of playing with fonts, I seem to recall that the Freetype
/ XFT module is perfectly capable of rendering the Type1 fonts. Make sure
you take the PATH out of your XftConfig in addition to the XF86Config

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