From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 14:44:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11740 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11735 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA22804; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:40:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606222140.OAA22804@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: true type fonts and/or deskjet 500 soft fonts To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:40:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: mgessner@winc.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jun 22, 96 00:29:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm looking for information on software that might let me use Windows > > TrueType fonts on my FreeBSD system. I have a DeskJet 500 attached, > > and the built in fonts leave a bit to be desired. > > Doesn't exist currently. > > But you can do postscript with ghostscript. I thought the X server could do TrueType... If nothing else, you can process the TrueType fonts into BDF fonts at each given point size, and then process those into binary font files for use by X (I thought the tools for doing this were on the Adobe site, last time I lokked -- thoug it could have been they came with FrameMaker). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.