Windows fonts - some observations

[Antony Baxter]

> 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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