From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 2 07:33:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29116 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA29106 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:33:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA26422; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:59:46 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804021359.PAA26422@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: X11 fonts... To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this is not totally a -multimedia thing but since my latest postings to -hackers have been totally ignored... I noticed, using Magicpoint (in ports/misc/magicpoint) that almost all fonts look very ugly at large magnifications. After poking around a little bit i noticed that the reason is, XFree86 uses all bitmapped fonts except for a small set of Type1 fonts. I also notice that ghostscript comes with the standard postscript fonts (albeit not the ones from adobe) and they do work with X provided fonts.dir exists and the directory is in the font path. So i wonder: 1) am i the only one who does not use the scalable ghostscript fonts with the X server ? 2) is there any disadvantage (performance ?) in replacing bitmapped fonts with the corresponding Type1 ones ? (or perhaps the server is already smart enough to use bitmapped fonts if available for a given size, and resort to scalable ones only if the former are not available ? 3) Does anyone have the knowledge to write up a small script to make the X server use other fonts that might be available on the system (e.g. ghostscript, TeX, etc.) ? Unfortunately i don't know enough about this, but it does not look too hard for X programmers. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message