Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon files ) working in the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should support these ok; I symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran fc-cache, tried e.g xterm -fa Small

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, Antony, On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: works fine in with truetype fonts, black-on-black with .fon fonts. Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same for me. This seems to be a generic FreeType or Xft problem. I've cc'ed the xorg mailinglist. *.fon files are

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Antony Baxter
Hi Alexander, Antony, On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: works fine in with truetype fonts, black-on-black with .fon fonts. Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same for me. This seems to be a generic FreeType or Xft problem. I've cc'ed the xorg mailinglist. *.fon files

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Antony, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: *.fon files are not TrueType, they are legacy Windows bitmapped fonts, Antony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think FreeType does support them; it supports Windows FNT fonts which I presume are the same: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon files ) working in the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should support these ok; I symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran fc-cache, tried e.g xterm -fa Small Fonts,

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-10 Thread Antony Baxter
However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon files ) working in the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should support these ok; I symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran fc-cache, tried e.g xterm -fa Small Fonts, but everything appeared as white-on-white.