Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:33:11 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp, devel@XFree86.Org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: anybody from the XFree86 team here ? Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE018C1D42@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> From: Takuya SHIOZAKI [SMTP:shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp] > > From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> > Oops, sorry if I repeat the same things into the XFree86 developers list the second time. > > > I'm working on conversion of TTF fonts into Type1 format. > > I have to wonder why you want to go this way, when at this point in > time > > just about everyone is using the new TrueType fontserver. And before > too > > long XFree86 will release servers that can use TTF fonts directly. > I want to use the same fonts also with Ghostscript. > FreeBSD ports-current/packages-current has been containing our > X-TrueType Server Version1.0 [Aoi MATSUBARA Release 0]. > You need only to invoke pkg_add to use TrueType-fied XFree86 Server, > based on 3.2.2.3. If you use RedHat Linux, Slacware Linux, Debian > GNU/Linux > and/or TurboLinux distributions, you can use the X-TT binary packages > we > have already prepeared, too. > I have tried some TTF font server. Here is why I can't use it directly as is: 1. For Unicode encoded TTF fonts it's neccessary to move the russian letters to CP1251 codes. 2. I want to get also fonts in KOI-8 and CP866 encodings. To do that I have to patch the server to do translation on the fly or convert the source TTF fonts (or translate the Type1 fonts that seemed to be the easiest way for me :-) 3. That server exported all the fonts as having iso8859-1 encoding 4. That server exported all the fonts as having proportional width 5. I'm not sure now but I think there was some problem with font names and/or attributes 6. I still want to use these fonts with Ghostscript :-) , may be also TeX and LyX -Sergey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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