Around 12 o'clock on Jul 13, Zenith Lau wrote:
> 1. It seems that XFT is so good, so what's about the conventional fonts > module inside X, like the xtt, freetype, type1, etc... The X server can still provide fonts for applications not yet ported to Xft. These modules will be useful as long as you have some older applications left around. > 2. Does the freetype modules in X use XFT? Xft is just a way to get FreeType hooked up to the X protocol; there's no magic here. It's not relevant on the server side, the server can use the output of FreeType directly. > 3. If I want to use XFT, should I use DRI modules?? The older Xft did require the Render extension, but all XFree86-based X servers have provided that for over a year now, including those built from sources directly from the DRI project. The new Xft (not yet released, but in CVS) doesn't even need Render and will work on any X server. > 4. In Gnome2 (I am not sure, I just believe so), use XFT will have a good > anti-aliased fonts, if I can't use XFT, does it means that I can only use > the conventional modules? The current Gnome2 release uses the older Xft which required the Render extension. The next Gtk+/Pango release uses current Xft bits which don't require the extension, so you'll always be able to use Xft. > 5. As in the XFT documentation says, XFT is for client application, just > like Pango use it, hence all gtk2 and gnome2 apps will benefit from this, > but how about other software using other toolkits, like qt? Is there > project is adopting pango, or xft in qt, or enlightenment ?? (I know > Enlightenment hasn't release the R17 for a long time, but I have really > want to see it in the future, it is the first reason I install my first > linux : ) Qt was the first toolkit with full Xft support. Tcl/Tk, Fltk and a host of other applications have been ported as well. I don't know the state of enlightenment these days. > 6. In xtt, the ttcap functions is useful for chinese fonts (I am a > Chinese), however, does freetype provide this, or xft provide this?? > > 7. If similar functions of ttcap is not available in xft and freetype > currently, will it been in the todo list later. ttcap isn't relevant for Xft. Xft provides full support for all TrueType and Type1 fonts, and has some special support for Han languages to ensure that the right fonts are used in each locale. Xft supports a large number of rendering configuration options for fonts. The subsetting options aren't relevant as Xft always incrementally rasterizes fonts. > 8. Okey, last question, from XFree86.org, I read the documentatioin about > fonts, and it points me to the original webiste of freetype, and xtt. but > for the xtt, the host is not reachable, and for the freetype module, the > web page points me back to the XFree documentation for details. At last, I > can't find any further information on this two modules. I don't know where the xtt pages have disappeared to, and the freetype module doesn't really have any configuration options in any case. Google can probably locate some useful xtt documentation for you. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
