On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Lau wrote: >Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:23:06 +0800 >From: Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: XFree86 Font List <fonts.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: [Fonts]ttmkfdir and mkfontscale > >Hi, > >> Just to clarify this a bit more, the C++ version of ttmkfdir >> included in Red Hat Linux is not a part of XFree86 (thank >> goodness), but is included in our XFree86 packages as it made >> more sense to include it there than in the freetype package as we >> have in the past. > >When 'ldd /usr/bin/ttmkfdir' (from RH7.3), it show me that, it linked with freetype2, >but some previous post tell me that, ttmkfdir is for freetype1.
Yeah, there are many different 'variants' of ttmkfdir floating around. Mandrake has one, Debian another, SuSE probably has another (haven't checked), and we've got one too. I've explored all of them, and each of them handles certain things better than the others. None of them are really superior for all purposes unfortunately. ;o/ I had investigated them to see if there was one better than what we were shipping, preferably not written in C++. Each of the variants solved some problems that ours did not, but had different problems of their own, so I decided to just keep the one we have for the time being rather than just swapping problem sets, and then wait for mkfontscale to take over. >So, does it means that, the RH version ttmkfdir is patched to use freetype2? Yes, the C++ ttmkfdir in Red Hat Linux 7.3 is ported to Freetype2. I recommend testing mkfontscale out however and reporting any problems with it to Juliusz, as everyone will most likely be dumping ttmkfdir in the near future and using mkfontscale instead. Hope this helps, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
