** On Sep 06, Radovan Garabik scribbled: [snip] > > I noticed that it also fails to process fome TTF fonts (check out > > http://curiosity.de/downloads/fonts/curefonts.zip - most of them get > > ignored when generating fonts.dir) > > they are not complete - ttmkfdir generates lines only for > encodings the font contains all the chars of (obviously, > very few - if any - ucs fonts pass this test) > Use -c option with such fonts. OK, thanks. Will use just that :) > > > > > > I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are > > > EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best > > > unicode coverage) as main font in konqueror, just drawing a page > > > in ASCII takes 2 minutes (PIII 600 MHz). During those 2 > > Are you using the freetype backend? > > > > freetype backend, xfs font server and xfs-ttf font server all > seem to take the same long time. > I tried xtt backend but I was not succesful in setting it up. I must say that I don't have speed/stability problems on my Sid machine with the Bitstream Cyberbit font (http://www.ccss.de/slovo/unifonts.htm) which is also quite large (13MB). Nevertheless, fact is that the fixed font works the best :)). I just wish I could make GNOME display the wide fonts correctly in the GUI elements...
marek -- Visit: http://caudium.net - the Caudium WebServer /* A completely unrelated fortune */ They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. -- Mark Twain
pgpLNea3LFHAR.pgp
Description: PGP signature