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Re: [Devel] Using Windows bitmap-fonts (.fon) in Linux
From: |
Ole André Vadla Ravnås |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Using Windows bitmap-fonts (.fon) in Linux |
Date: |
06 Aug 2002 17:03:19 +0200 |
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 12:26, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "Ole" == Ole André Vadla Ravnås <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Ole> Hi I noticed that freetype has support for the .fon bitmap font
> Ole> format used by MS Windows. Is there any way of utilizing these
> Ole> fonts on a Linux system with X11?
>
> Yes. You'd need to use ft2 to render them, so the options are Xft for
> client side fonts and the ft2 backend for server side fonts.
>
> You probably already have Xft installed (probably version 1), but for
> the ft2 server-side backend you will need to patch and recompile X.
Great! Hi Owen, Limbo doesn't happen to provide XFree with Xft v2? :)
Thanks
Ole André