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Re: xfstt
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: xfstt
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 17:45:20 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: Erez Doron <erez(at-nospam)savan.com>, ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <20010502172905.A1356@pollux.galanet.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:59:11AM +0200, Erez Doron wrote:
> > so may be that the xfstt is more advanced than the ttmkfdir utility and
> > support more fonts ...
>
> Not really. ttmkfdir does a much better job at finding out available
> encodings of each font. Until I upgraded to XFree86 4.0, I used
> xfs-xtt, alongwith ttmkfdir.
You forgot to mention that you had to slightly patch ttmkfdir to get it to
extract iso10646-1 -encoded fonts.
Actually installing xfstt is really the easiest way to use TTFs (although
it may not give the best results)
http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/134.html
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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