At 04:26 PM 8/17/01 -0700, Brian Stell wrote:
>There are various uses of TrueType and its feature in Linux
>systems. To my knowledge no Linux app currently uses all the
>OpenType features; eg: the GPOS table.
Thanks for the info.
>(of course motivated individuals could go to google and search for
>"truetype linux" and "opentype linux")
Internet (Web) stuff in Myanmar is not very handy and not publicly
available yet. Had it not been the case, I'd have googled happily and
lengthily. However, when I'm privileged to use it sometimes, I will do
that. But bandwidth...on-line time..are limited.:(
>If you JUST WANT TO USE TRUETYPE FONTS you probably want to set
>up a X font server. X font servers make the new fonts appear
>to older apps just like one of the older fonts. This URL is a bit
>out of date but it should give you a hint:
> http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/
GOT it.
>Note however, not all older apps interact perfectly with the new
>fonts.
>
>If you are WRITING X CODE, want to use an Xlib like API,
>you can use Xft library to access FreeType2:
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/
Not that advanced yet.
>If you are WRITING CODE and do not mind learning a new API you could
>directly access FreeType2:
>
> http://www.freetype.org/
>
>Note: the learning curve for the FreeType API is a bit steep but if
>you really want a lot of information from the font ...
I'm currently dealing with freetype and pango.
Thank you all for your concern and continued support.
Regards,
william
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