Just been rummaging around the 'net and found some interesting info regarding typographic display systems for 'nix
http://stsf.sourceforge.net/news.html "Standard Type Services Framework (STSF) is a portable open-source software framework for rendering typographically sophisticated text. STSF is font technology neutral. It supports all features of TrueType, Type1, TrueType GX and OpenType and provides a consistent name space to applications. STSF is platform neutral. It has a porting layer that can be integrated with any imaging framework including, for example, the X Window System, Java2 SE Java2D, and Star/OpenOffice. STSF supports bitmap or vector image data formats. It communicates with any host graphics systems by means of a set of callback functions. The STSF architecture permits great flexibility in the X implementation. STSF was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and made available for the open source community under the BSD license." Looks to be a very nice system for implementing better Font rendering under X. I have downloaded the current source's and will install to see if any better results can be had than those found using the native rendering under X. Although I think that it needsto be support compiled into the App that is to use its capabilities which is well beyond my skills... Franz/Paul !?! :) Regards, Mark Muller --
