Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Re: Bugs in Pango

[Kaushik Ghose]

Ho Ho Ho,

> Pango-viewer does not work on my system too.
> However, you do need the xft backend
> 
>     The recommended font backend for X in Pango-1.2 is the Xft backend
>     which uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client
>     side fonts. Benefits of the Xft backend include, performance,
>     support for OpenType fonts, and antialiasing. Version 2 of
>     Xft is available from http://keithp.com/fonts/. The 'fcpackage'
>     tarball includes both Xft, and it's dependency, 'fontconfig'.
> 

Thanks for the tip.
What app are you using then.

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