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Re: TrueType problem + question
- From: nitzan shaked <calius at netvision dot net dot il>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:53:53 +0300
- Subject: Re: TrueType problem + question
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Thanks Alex re the font-cache explanation.
As for the one size issue -- I understand that TrueType fonts are scalable, but the question is whether the fact that xlsfonts etc will only show "size 0" won't confuse applications. I as a human will manage when typing resource values...
N.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 10:51 am
Subject: Re: TrueType problem + question
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote:
>
> > Alex, Thomas
> >
> > Thank you both. It works, of course... In the mean time I
> figured out that I do need to run mkfontdir. There are a couple of
> follow-up questions:
> >
> > 1) What is FT's "font cache"? Is that related to the fonts.cache-
> 1? I assume if I just delete it it will get rebuilt.
>
> A cache where Freetype stores information about fonts. Yes. Yes,
> if you call fc-cache or font-update.
>
> >
> > 2) There is no fonts.alias file. I assume that's why xfontsel
> will only show one size per font. Is that the way you work as
> well, or do you create a font file (eg a PERL script)?
>
> For truetype fonts there is no set of font sizes. You can scale
> them to
> any size you want. Use the entries from xfontsel as base and just
> add the
> fontsize as illustrated in my previous mail.
>
> bye
> ago
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