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Re: xfstt
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: xfstt
- From: Erez Doron <erez(at-nospam)savan.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:59:11 +0200
- CC: ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- References: <3AEFBE3C.AC30AB8E@savan.com> <20010502112832.B28671@pollux.galanet.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
hi
thanks for answering,
Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Hi Erez,
>
> About your first problem - xfs serves Type1 and bitmap fonts too, if
> you configure it to the Type1 / bitmap directories paths.
> Have you checked you don't have other Type1 and bitmap iso8859-8 fonts
> installed?
not 8859-8 ones ! ( i ran ttmkfdir on each directory i have, the total was 10
8859-8 fonts )
>
>
> > btw: how do I stop xfstt from changing the fonts names to -ttf-*-*-*....
>
> As I remember, one of the servers found fonts itself (ignoring
> fonts.dir and using 'ttf' as the foundry), while the other
> (xfs-xtt?) actually used fonts.dir (including the foundries).
>
you seem to be right as i can install xfstt without installing the rpm that
has ttmkfdir in t.
>
> Anyhow, why do you need a font server while XF4 already supports
> TrueType fonts natively? Guys, are there any performance advantages to
> this?
>
trying to do mkfontdir on a ttf directory gives 0 fonts ! i guess my xfs-4.0.3
does not support ttf
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov
so may be that the xfstt is more advanced than the ttmkfdir utility and
support more fonts ...
regards
erez.
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