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Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:39:26 -0700
Todd Meade wrote:
>
> Anyone play around with some of the free true type font servers and patches
> floating around the net? Many include patches for the XFree86 system
> itself, so that any X application can take advantage of true type. I got
> some junk mail from Xi Graphics about their v5.0 release, which also
> includes true type support. Anyone have any comments on this commercial
> release? I used to use XIG v4.1 before XFree86 had support for my G200.
> However, the XIG server wasn't compatible with the 2.2 kernel frame buffer
> stuff.
I'm using the xfsft truetype font server with excellent results. I'm
running kernel 2.2.6 and xfree 3.3.3.1
See [ http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/truetype/ ]
for an excellent, to the point mini howto.
Editing Java source in the nedit text editor with syntax highlighting
turned on looks great with true type fonts, compared to being almost
unreadable without these fonts.
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