Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:02:57 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WP's for FreeBSD (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) Message-ID: <3B3E84D1.5F30451C@pitt.edu> References: <3B3DF543.352AB50A@pitt.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106271129170.46208-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <3B3A2E2F.A74DDCC8@pitt.edu> <3B3A2ECF.6FECA0E3@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010630061123.E20203@hades.hell.gr> <3B3D8FC5.C5366C3B@pitt.edu> <15165.28264.754600.976397@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010630173948.01807f38@threespace.com> <15166.19723.198825.677156@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote:
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> p5-type1inst - I assume that's the one Pedro ported, as the maintainer
> is one giffunip@asme.org - is also described in it's pkg-descr file;
> it's a perl script that builds the files needed to use PS fonts in X11
> and ghostscript.
>
Oh sh*t! I still maintain that?? ;). Yes it does that. It works very
well if you have postscript fonts and don't want to find out how to
generate description files for XFree86. I remember trying the truetype
X11 server, but it was very touchy about the case in which the windoze
partition wrote the fonts so I ended up uninstalling it.
The CD I bought is called 2000 Fantastic Fonts by Expert Software. Very
cheap if you find can still find it somewhere: they were classified as
shareware in CompUSA. The OS/2 postscript fonts will also work. I looked
for the adobe fonts but they were very expensive and don't include the
basic, more common ones (which are on OS/2).
Our distribution has some slightly broken things; we should be using
type1inst to support all the postscript fonts in ports but we don't do
this with the ghostscript type1 fonts. Most of the ports do use
type1inst but the XF86Conf file has to be edited manually to support
them. We also don't have a standard place to put the afm files but that
is of little importance.
All in all it is possible to get a very nice looking XWindows system. I
recall there is a document about this in our documentation project.
Pedro.
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