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Re: Windows fonts - some observations
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:04:11 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Windows fonts - some observations
- References: <20040510141703.73543.qmail@web25203.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote:
>
> However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon
> files ) working in
> the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should
> support these ok; I
> symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran
> fc-cache, tried
> e.g xterm -fa "Small Fonts", but everything appeared
> as white-on-white.
> I tried setting the foreground color, background
> color, etc, but nothing
> ever appears except the cursor. Anyone else seen this?
> I'm not currently
> able to try this under on another setup, so could
> easily be my screw up.
Are the *.fon fonts listed with fc-list?
bye
ago
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