Re: True Type fonts

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote:
> 
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > >
> > > >> Section "Files"
> > > >> RgbPath            "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> > > >> FontPath             "unix/:7101"
> > > >> FontPath             "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> > > >> FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> > > >> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> > > >> EndSection
> > >
> > > Stewart> Ok.  I can leave the unix/:7101 uncommented and it starts x
> > > Stewart> just fine.  The truetype path is what is causing the "can't
> > > Stewart> find default font 'fixed'" error.
> > >
> > > Of course.  The X server itself doesn't know iota about True Type.
> > > Only xfstt understands them.  So X gets some kind of error when
> > > processing the truetype line (which shouldn't be there), and never
> > > reads the rest of the paths, including the misc one (which is where
> > > fixed resides).
> >
> > Not true.  XF4 understands truetype just fine. XF3.x does not, so your
> > comments do apply for XF3.x ...
> >
> > FWIW, XF4 and xfstt don't seem to get along very well.
> 
> Now I don't understand. XF4 includes support for True Type Fonts, but
> this support is based in xfs-xtt, or is native to the X server. I'm in
> doubt because I got xfs-xtt running in an X4.0.2 system.

  it's native, you do not need any of *tt* font servers.

	erik