From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 30 16: 1: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93A937B401 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1058"@[136.142.20.160]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5DZU8RPP2002OVH@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:01:01 EST Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:02:57 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: WP's for FreeBSD (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) To: Mike Meyer Cc: Technical Information , FreeBSD Chat Message-id: <3B3E84D1.5F30451C@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3B3DF543.352AB50A@pitt.edu> <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> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer wrote: > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message