Re: FreeType

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> Is there any chance that freetype should be working in woody?  I just
> did a dist-upgrade (with a lot of rough spots) and am not having much
> luck with it or other proportional fonts.  My test case is xman, since
> I noticed it got much better when I installed the true-type font
> server in olden days (potato).
> 
> I can't find the "backend" (described as "formerly xfsft").  If I did,
> I would still have sticking face numbers in my font.dirs file.  I see
> no mention a program to do this or how it should (e.g., can I just
> pick a random face number?).
> 
> When I installed XFree86 4.0.2 it kicked out references to the old
> true-type stuff (e.g., not port 7101 in the dir list, options are set
> for freetype not true type).  So I gather that's the way we're
> supposed to go.  But can we get there yet?
> 
> XF86Config has a font server at 7100 as the first item, but I'm not
> sure if anything is running there--or if the new server now replaces
> the two I had previously (namely the regular and TT servers).

This is it. The normal xfs now has TT support, just like the X server itself.
Both use FreeType for rasterization.


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