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Re: TTF files under x window



> 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.

Well, from my experience, xfstt supports more charsets (somehow authors of
xfsft decided to not support windows-1251 charset, for example, for
political reasons) - I believe, it can be configured at runtime. Also, you
need not all X source distribution or greater part of it to build xfstt,
while to build xfsft you might. On the other hand, xfstt is bigger -
twice-tice as much RSS and about ten times (!) as much SIZE. I use xfstt
actively, from the other hands, so it may be not so bad as it seems - it
just has more fonts that xfsft. 

On the bottom line, xfstt is simple to install and use (also xfsft author
acknowledges this), but less clean. In fact, you may run both, if you
wish... :)
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