Re: TT Fonts revisted

Subject: Re: TT Fonts revisted
From: Paul (paul@nlpagan.net)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 13:26:06 CDT

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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:

>Forgive me if this issue has already been addressed, but does XFree86
>4.0 pave the way for better TT font support in Linux? Will it make the
>situation for AbiWord any better?
>
>This is an excerpt from the XFree86 Home page.
>
>"4.1. TrueType support
>
>This version of XFree86 comes with two TrueType backends, known as
>`xfsft' (the "freetype" module) and `X-TrueType' (the "xtt"
>module). Both of these backends are based on the FreeType library."

I don't know about Xfree 4, but Linux mandrake 7.1 has a nice feature
called DrakFont which makes it extremely simple to handle and install
TTF's.

Paul

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