I'm running the new ft2 backend now for all scalled fonts.�
Most everything looks good so far. I've tried several different
fonts in mozilla, rxvt, gvim.
The average width error is still there for type1 fonts, but AFAICT
it affects very few programs that one usually doesn't notice.
SuSE patches the type1 backend to treak urw-fontspecific like
adobe-fontspecific. (They also patch xftfreetype.c for this.)
Perhaps generalizing -adobe-fontspecific into -*-fontspecific
would be reasonable? They have urw-fontspecific in:
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/fonts.dir
for the -URW-Dingbats- and -URW-Standard Symbols L- fonts.
I'm also having trouble adding /usr/lib/jdk1.3/jre/lib/fonts
to the font path. It craps out with:
X Error of failed request: 86
Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
Serial number of failed request: 8
Current serial number in output stream: 10
which seems indicative of a broken fonts.dir. Making a new fonts.dir
with mkfontscale;mkfontdir however did not solve that one. I've tried
with both IBM Java 1.3's and Sun/Blackdown 1.3.1's jre/lib/fonts.
Everything else looks great, though, whether t1, ttf or otf.
-JimC
� While the speedo backend is also loaded, the speedo fonts are not
in the fontpath. Useful, eh? :)
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