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Re: Windows fonts - some observations

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 <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> Same for me. This seems to be a generic FreeType or Xft
> problem. I've cc'ed the xorg mailinglist.

*.fon files are not TrueType, they are legacy Windows bitmapped fonts,
used since long before TrueType was invented.  I doubt FreeType has
functionality to read them.  I think there are converters out there to
convert them to and from X11 bitmap formats.

benny
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