Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:58:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Daniel Frasnelli <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TTF -> Type 1 font converter? (xmbdfed port status) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9807311051340.21664-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807311538.LAA29503@naur.cs.wvu.edu>
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Daniel Frasnelli wrote: > I recently came across several TrueType fonts I would like to use > in documents (with Applixware), and am currently searching for a TTF->Type 1 > (bdf) font conversion tool. A few Usenet articles I came across mention > xmbdfed having a built-in converter, but it appears that our port is broken > at the moment. A while ago an update to the program compiled but refused to run on FreeBSD. Since the older distfiles went away and I did not have time to investigate, I marked it as broken. Since then there have been a couple new releases that I should check out. The maintainer of xmbdfed (not the port) is also the author of a truetype font rendering engine which can be used by xmbdfed. I'm sorry I don't have a URL for it handy. The truetype engine should probably be brought in as a separate port which xmbdfed would then depend on. It could theoretically also be used by an X font server which would be the preferred way of using truetype fonts. Of course, that assumes the thing can be made to work on FreeBSD...I'm going on vacation soon so I won't be investigating this in the immediate future. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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