Re: ttf support under linux

[Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>]

On 25 Feb 2001, charles@lunarmedia.net wrote:
> i've got ttf2pt1 compiled and running on my machine,
> however its having a seriously hard time dealing with
> converting dingbat and other non-essential fonts to type1.
>
> does anyone have insight into what the future of ttf
> support on linux will be, or what other alternatives
> exist outside of ttf2pt1?

I thought you were running RH7, and that has Xfree86 4.0.1
with direct ttf support--no?

I'm migrating to RH7 later this week, but this isn't among
reasons why.  I would be moving to SuSE 7.1 Professional,
but RH7 Deluxe Workstation is the same price.  SuSE's
site doesn't provide a complete list of packages in 7.1; I'm
unable to evaluate just how much is updated.  Add to that
my understanding that it's not RPM 4.x based, and I just
don't like the direction SuSE is going lately.  But I digress...

I've been using xfstt.  It works, in a klunky kinda way.  It
needs restarted twice every time you install a new font,
and Gimp usually core dumps the first time you try them.
Other applications still don't recognize them, but I haven't
needed them enough to investigate whether that's just the
way it is.  Most reports I've seen regard xfstf as superior.

There's a TrueType HOWTO, if you haven't read it:
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/TrueType-HOWTO.html


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