From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24683 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 07:34:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24676 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 07:34:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu) (130.132.50.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 07:34:27 -0000 Received: from argos.its.yale.edu (argos.its.yale.edu [130.132.52.18]) by pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu (8.11.6p2-20030917/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAL7YNL24753 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:34:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from argos.its.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by argos.its.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAL7YQbf030304 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:34:26 -0500 Received: from localhost (lsb32@localhost) by argos.its.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id hAL7YQhI030300 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:34:26 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: argos.its.yale.edu: lsb32 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:34:00 -0000 From: Lev Bishop To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: TTF-font rendering not working anymore Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.1d (attachment(s) not renamed) X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00327.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold, you wanted a three-click test case: $ xfontsel wait for it to finish parsing all the fonts. Note that it displays the alphabet in some default font at the bottom of the window. Click on family and choose a TTF from the list, eg. one of the Luxis. Note that the alphabet is no longer displayed. Just one click, three is not needed. There are programmes ttfmkfdir, mkfontscale, mkfontdir, which need to be run when adding new fonts or directories, but the files they create are already present and rerunning them doesn't change things. Anyway, the fonts show up in the xfontsel list, so I think the problem is with the rendering, not anything else. This is not a problem with the "new style" fonts stuff, fontconfig, etc, as used by xterm, etc, which work very well for me with the recent versions, much prettier than the older ones, and even somewhat better than the version of the freetype2 library that I compiled a while ago for myself. (So well done everyone for getting all that working!) However, I expect it is related to the seperating out of the freetype stuff from the X server. I believe the "old style" (server side) fonts rendering stuff uses hacked up parts of freetype1 and freetype2 for dealing with TTF so presumably in the seperation process something got broken. Hope that's useful. Lev