On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Geoff wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:52:13 -0400 (EDT)
> Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Usually these are bugs in the font server or font
> > renderer.
> > Try using explicit font paths in the Section "Files" in
> > the XF86Config instead of using the font server. If that
> > doesn't solve it, try not using the truetype renderer
> > ("freetype" or "xtt") to see if that makes it go away.
> >
>
> Thanks Mark,
>
> Your reply was very helpful. I already had explicit font
> paths. I was, however, loading the freetype module but not
> xtt (I have never used that module). I commented out the
> instruction to load freetype and the problem went away.
> I have now tried loading xtt instead of freetype and, so far
> as a very quick appraisal can tell, I seem to have my
> truetype fonts working as well as they did before and
> Mozilla no longer crashes.
>
> If you would be so kind, can you answer two more questions :
>
> (1) Have I found a bug in freetype which I should report, or
> is it more likely that something is wrong with my own
> freetype installation? I should explain that this is a
> fresh and first compilation of freetype2 for the purposes of
> X 4.3 - I had used freetype1 previously.
It's probably a bug in freetype. The font folks on this
list should probably try to repro.
>
> (2) Am I losing anything by using the xtt module rather than
> the freetype one?
>
I'm not the expert on this. My impression was that xtt was
more focused on eastern fonts (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) while
freetype was more focused on western fonts, but their functionality
was similar. Font rendering is complicated. They probably both
have bugs.
Mark.
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