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. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
