XFree86 fonts from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@myrealbox.com
Sat Aug 2 00:40:00 GMT 2003


Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Can anyone think of any changes to the font packages between 4.2.0 and 
> 4.3.0 that would require me to repackage and distribute 4.3.0 font sets? 
>  If not, I would really like to just leave the current 4.2.0 fonts in 
> place since it will save most people from downloading between 15 and 50 
> MB of the same stuff.  Of course, the version numbers will look a little 
> funny, but I think most users would be pleased that they didn't have to 
> download the fonts again.
> Of course, if anyone knows otherwise, please speak up now so I don't 
> make a terrible mistake.

I know they added a couple more TTF fonts and a few more OTF fonts 
(mostly non-latin glyphs tho).  You might also want to check the XFree 
cvsweb as I'm pretty sure they made some changes to the generic bdf 
fonts as well.

Cheers,
Nicholas




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