Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:08:52 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Whither ttmkfdir? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uz55rjZ1P17CYATCxGW91DZTK079574TJonKjK6t-wZQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5511F37F.20801@dumbbell.fr> References: <CAN6yY1tNuN=pJrv9kD2WNtt7Kz5jm9UcO1FMwr9UnUpP42R-ZQ@mail.gmail.com> <5511F37F.20801@dumbbell.fr>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron < jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> wrote: > On 24.03.2015 20:01, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > If font directories are no longer required by the latest Xorg-server, > never > > mind. > > Yes, FWIW, nowadays, text and therefore fonts are handled by the X > client, not the X server anymore. It means applications are using > fontconfig to find fonts and freetype to render glyphs. > > -- > Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron > > Thanks. I was worried because I bought a number of TT fonts as a part of = a commercial package and needed the old ttmkfdir to use them, but I see that is not an issue any more. I see the instructions in the handbook still call for ttmkfdir in 6.6. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
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