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Re: True Type Fonts.
>>>>> Jose == Jose L Gomez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
Jose> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug On Thu, Aug 19,
Jose> 1999 at 11:47:50AM +0100, Richard wrote:
>> Jose
>>
>> Jose L Gomez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk>Re: True Type
>> Fonts.
>>
>> > Apparently, it's easy to compile. Give it a try under >
>> > http://web.mit.edu/sarantos/.
>>
>> I had a go with this but found it was a load of arse. Then
>> again.... not all of these utilities will work on every
>> machine. Best to go with whatever works for yourself :-)
My experience has been similar to Richard's. But then again, when
you're dealing with several multimegabyte fonts (Japanese has 8500
characters in the base set), you're going to stress the software.
One problem with all of these TrueType servers is that the X spec is
not very compatible with flexible scalable fonts. There are three
straightforward correct approaches in this situation:
(1) Limit yourself to the functionality that can be expressed in
the host system
(2) Say fsck that, roll your own API, and limit yourself to
applications rebuilt to the new API
(3) Both (1) and (2).
There is a devious and correct, but fragile, approach:
(4) Find a loophole in the host system's spec that allows you to
express the new functionality in a way that is meaningless but
harmless to nonaware applications
And there's the approach the ones I've looked at closely actually
took:
(5) Hack in the new capabilities in a way that doesn't break under
the developer's current configuration.
Sigh. Admittedly it's been more than 1 year; I expect things are
better now.
But I would suggest you budget a fair amount of time for installing,
basic configuration, and tweaking the system. RPMs (or .debs) help,
especially when they don't hurt ;-), but they're not a panacea.
Debian contribs are somewhat better than RPM contribs in my
experience.
Of course, YMMV on all of the above. Probably the majority of people
have it work out of the box.
Jose> it was expected that XF86 4.0 was going to ...
... be out by now. Uhm. They've got problems, I'm told (but not by a
core member). Holding your breath is not advised on this one.
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