From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 4 09:28:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28648 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28623 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13243; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Brian Feldman cc: Cejka Rudolf , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ELFoized xtt-SVGA-1.0 & TrueType fonts => HANG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > Xtt is slow to load fonts, and hangs while loading them for a sec. Same > with plain X fonts, too (X itself, not Xtt) I found Xtt to be extremely flakey and astonishingly complicated. Meanwhile, these patches for X11 are pretty simple and work great: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ I haven't tried the 1.0.2 version yet, but the 1.0.1 version was easy to build into the XFree86 port. Just "make extract", then unpack the TrueType redering code in the specified directory, apply path and then "make" the port. Then your X servers and xfs magically handle truetype fonts. Then go grab the "Web Fonts" package from Microsoft and all the web pages out there designed on Windows platforms look right on Unix. :) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message