Subject: Re: FreeBSD binaries
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 07:18:24 CDT
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, David Given wrote:
> [...]
> > Another question, which probably shows my ignorance: TrueType font support.
> > Is this only on Linux, or should that work on any UNIX with XFree86 4.0.x
> > (built-in TrueType support)? I ask because the limited number of fonts is
> > forcing me to stick with Kword for most things. (And I much prefer Abi, but
> > I've got some 3000 weirdball TT fonts, which Abi staunchly refuses to
> > use...) I'm specifically asking if it works on FreeBSD, but I have a
> > NetBSD/x86 laptop, and I'd like for it to work there, too.
>
> I'm not a BSD user, but X's native TrueType font ought to work. Failing that,
> there are at least two third-party X font servers that do TrueType (xtt and
> xfstt; the latter's part of the FreeType library).
>
> But I gather you'll need AFM files for the TrueType fonts if you want AbiWord
> to print them.
>
See Tomas Frydich's extremely well maintained UnixFonts.txt file in the
abi directory.
A sneak peek...
Contents
1. Introduction
2. pfa / pfb fonts
3. TTF fonts
4. Unicode peculiarities
5. Contact
Good Luck!
Martin
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