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Re: [Devel] Using Windows bitmap-fonts (.fon) in Linux
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James H. Cloos Jr. |
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Re: [Devel] Using Windows bitmap-fonts (.fon) in Linux |
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06 Aug 2002 06:26:32 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Ole" == Ole André Vadla Ravnås <address@hidden> writes:
Ole> Hi I noticed that freetype has support for the .fon bitmap font
Ole> format used by MS Windows. Is there any way of utilizing these
Ole> fonts on a Linux system with X11?
Yes. You'd need to use ft2 to render them, so the options are Xft for
client side fonts and the ft2 backend for server side fonts.
You probably already have Xft installed (probably version 1), but for
the ft2 server-side backend you will need to patch and recompile X.
-JimC