Re: How to load libfreetype

["Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>]

Here's a thread RE ttmkfdir in the archive for this mailing list that might 
be useful:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-03/msg00098.html

> From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to load libfreetype
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:26:46 +0100
>
> You wrote in <3D4DED9B.ACDD37EB@bi.wakwak.com>
> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:14:35 +0900:
>
> > hello.
> >
> > I'm Cygwin-XFree86's user,
> > and I want to use the TrueType fonts(libfreetype?).
> > But Cygwin-XFree86 has no XF86Config settingfile!!!
> > How can I load the module?
> > Somebody please tell me hot to configure it.
>
> The XWin.exe server has TrueType support built-in but you need to
> create a fonts.scale file in every font directory that you add to the
> font path that contains TrueType fonts.
>
> Joerg Pommnitz has written a nice little utility for creating these
> files called ttmkfdir. There's a version compiled for Cygwin at
> http://fundin.f2g.net/?download which includes a readme file with some
> ideas about how to add directories to your font path in your X
> start-up script.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sam Edge



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