On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:05, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:39:00AM +0300, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:43:23PM +0300, Andrei@yahoo.com wrote: > > > wine on startup saying just that: > > > Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to > > > use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than > > > or equal to 2.0.5. > > > http://www.freetype.org > > > Building font metrics. This may take some time... > > > > > > #and make X use 99% of CPU ... while not doing anything else for hours > > > #i got libfreetype 2.0.9 (woody stable) installed > > > > > > and wine not hang - it responds to ^C > > > 'Wine failed with code 1' > > > > > ok - i found that xfstt responsible for that > > but there were postages claiming it works with wine ... > > and how to get TT fonts if it doesnt? > > Thanx for help... > > If you're using X > 4.0, you don't need a font server at all. It's a > waste of memory. Just point X at your TT fonts, and make sure the right > module is loaded, and you should be all set. > > -rob I'd qualify it - there is one situation I'd think of needing a font server, and that is if you are on a network and all of the fonts are installed on one machine and being served out network-wide (the original concept for this sort of thing.) The font server would run on that machine, and feed them as needed to X servers calling on it. That was meant more for when disk space was noticeably less available and fonts were usually strictly proprietary and *bloody* expensive (*bloody* is one of those British financial terms in this context.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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