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Re: Windows fonts - some observations
- From: Antony Baxter <antony_baxter at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:26:15 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Windows fonts - some observations
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Hi Alexander, Antony,
>
>> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote:
>>> works fine in with truetype fonts, black-on-black
with .fon fonts.
>
> Alexander Gottwald
<alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
>> Same for me. This seems to be a generic FreeType or
Xft
>> problem. I've cc'ed the xorg mailinglist.
>
> *.fon files are not TrueType, they are legacy
Windows bitmapped fonts,
> used since long before TrueType was invented. I
doubt FreeType has
> functionality to read them. I think there are
converters out there to
> convert them to and from X11 bitmap formats.
>
> benny
I think FreeType does support them; it supports
Windows FNT fonts which
I presume are the same:
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html
antony
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