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Re: TTF files under x window



> Doe's anybody know how to use ttf fonts under x window

Look at http://www.freetype.org/projects.htm , under the sub-title
"The X11 TTF font server". You will find information and links about
two TTF font servers (xfsft and xfstt). I believe that the quality
of xfsft is higher, since it is based on the original xfs of the X
Distribution and on the technology of FreeType.

In addition, there is a strange development of somebody from Japan,
called "X-TrueType Server":
http://hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp/student/person/tshiozak/x-tt/index-eng.html

Some UNIXes (I think also Caldera) include "Fontastic" which is a
commercial font server supporting TTF. Even if you don't have it but
only an access to such a system, you can use it combined with
"fstobdf" in order to generate BDFs (or PCFs) of all the sizes (and/
or transformations) you need.

And finally, you can use FontMonger or the amazing Fontographer
(both are commercial) to convert TTF fonts to Type1 fonts.

I think the best of all the options here is xfsft:
	http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/

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Eli Marmor
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El-Mar Software Ltd.