From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 2 10:35:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04344 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cwbone.bsi.com.br (cwbone.bsi.com.br [200.250.250.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04334 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulo@main.fiscodata.com.br) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwbone.bsi.com.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01233; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:35:07 GMT Received: from main.fiscodata.com.br(200.250.227.210) via SMTP by cwbone.bsi.com.br, id smtpd001224; Thu Apr 2 15:34:57 1998 Received: (from paulo@localhost) by main.fiscodata.com.br (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA21223; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:40:22 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:40:22 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <199804021840.PAA21223@main.fiscodata.com.br> From: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it CC: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199804021359.PAA26422@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> (message from Luigi Rizzo on Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (MET DST)) Subject: Re: X11 fonts... References: <199804021359.PAA26422@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -> From: Luigi Rizzo -> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (MET DST) -> -> So i wonder: -> 1) am i the only one who does not use the scalable ghostscript fonts -> with the X server ? I don't have a printer, but I think 'gv' is good enough for reading docs; ghostview does not show the text well enough. -> 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 ? I think the server will use the first font it finds in the font path. There is an option in XF86Config, that is to add the string ":unscaled" to the end of a font path, so one can add the same font path twice. Like: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" -> 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.) ? Other font formats I don't know. I have played a bit with the font paths, and could not find a better configuration than the one XF86Setup left in the XF86Config. There is at least one collection of free fonts for X. -> Unfortunately i don't know enough about this, but it does not look -> too hard for X programmers. I don't have enough knowledge to write a X extension (and add more bloating to a font specification), but at the client side I know it is not too hard to add antialiased/multi-colored fonts, but then, only your program will be able to use it. Creating bitmaped unscaled fonts at several sizes should be easy, but would require a lot of time of graphical artists. [ I'm putting my efforts in my free time (for about 2 years now) in building a free 'cool' Xt based toolkit (and never found references of other people working on something like it for FreeBSD, like de kde, gnome, gtk, enlightenment, etc for linux) ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message