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Re: True Type font support - and a vmware note...



I haven't gone into this but the following link might be relevant:

http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/truetype/index.html

Boaz.




Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I got 2 questions (if you don't mind):
> 
> 1. Redhat 6.0 got this X font server (XFS) - what is it and why do I
> need it? can I use it with True Type fonts from Windows?
> 
> 2. IF the X font server from Previous question is not for using with
> true type fonts - what is the best and EASIEST solution to use true type
> fonts with Linux? Linux fonts that comes with X are horrible (and I'm
> very polite here), and it's impossible to use if you try to read web
> pages like C|Net, ZDNet, and many others..
> 
> One more thing (which is offtopic) - VMWare version 0.80 came out for NT
> last week. Why do I mention it? cause I know many of you here run NT at
> work - and now finally they can run Linux under NT :) .. The performance
> ain't bad, the text looks pretty funny (just like those full screen DOS
> sessions on notebooks), and X windows with Gnome/KDE runs very well (I
> still got problems with sound configuration, but I guess I'll find out
> tommorow how to fix it). All in all - worth a try....
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
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