On 4/9/2009 11:27 AM, Mick wrote:
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield<kut...@kutulu.org>:
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote:
Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux
following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts?
OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to
TrueType, but is in theory an open standard, so its become a pretty popular
font set. Xorg just includes, by default, a list of such popular font
packages (it also includes FreeType, a couple different dpis, etc.)
If I were to install OTF which package should I emerge? dev-libs/libotf-0.9.6 ?
There are a couple of OpenType font packages in portage but they mostly
are alternative language fonts. Currently most of the font packages
that have been converted to OpenType are commercial, like the Adobe
professional fonts.
As far as OTF support, I'm pretty sure it's already built in to any
recent version of the freetype library and pango/Qt. You shouldn't need
to install anything more to use OTF fonts, you just have to find the OTF
fonts :)
