From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 30 17:53:35 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 6CD2E37B401 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1066"@[136.142.20.139]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5E3RPNXDA002IB0@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:53:30 EST Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:55:27 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: WP's for FreeBSD (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) To: Mike Meyer Cc: FreeBSD Chat Message-id: <3B3E9F2F.CA775C3B@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> <3B3E84D1.5F30451C@pitt.edu> <15166.25090.679153.10139@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: > ... On the subject of different objectives, the base X11 fonts are so different (and low quality) compared to the Windoze stuff when I first saw X on a PC unix I used to think there was some magical secret between MS, Borland, and the display manufacturers. Those days one of my friends (a CS student) was also having problems realizing what I meant by "recompiling the kernel". One of the things we owe to the free software movement was this enlightening process: no one would ever imagine to know what a kernel developer really was in those days. > > There's one I used that discusses setting up various font types for > use with X and ghostscript. Is that what you were referring to? > It's been quite a time but it would seem it was this: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/fonts/article.html Something I found elsewhere, and very useful, is how to convert microsoft older windows fonts to something usable with X: there is a utility in wine distribution to do that. doscmd also wants some fonts that are not carried by the normal FreeBSD distribution; I forgot where to hunt those. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message