Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ELFoized xtt-SVGA-1.0 & TrueType fonts => HANG Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811041219260.523-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811041133220.17234-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > Xtt is slow to load fonts, and hangs while loading them for a sec. Same > with plain X fonts, too (X itself, not Xtt) I found Xtt to be extremely flakey and astonishingly complicated. Meanwhile, these patches for X11 are pretty simple and work great: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ I haven't tried the 1.0.2 version yet, but the 1.0.1 version was easy to build into the XFree86 port. Just "make extract", then unpack the TrueType redering code in the specified directory, apply path and then "make" the port. Then your X servers and xfs magically handle truetype fonts. Then go grab the "Web Fonts" package from Microsoft and all the web pages out there designed on Windows platforms look right on Unix. :) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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