Re: japanese fonts: ttf, ghostscript + vflib, XFree 4.0.x

[John Seebach <jseebach@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Mike Fabian wrote:
> John Seebach <jseebach@example.com> writes:
> 
> > Next question:
> > 
> > Can XFree 4.0.x serve multibyte truetype fonts correctly? I'm
> > currently using 3.3.6 with xfstt, which can't, and the Japanese hack
> > of xfs seemed kind of scary the last time I checked. 
> 
> Yes, works fine with XFree 4.0.x.
> 
> Instead of "freetype" you can also use "xtt". The module "xtt" is
> the stuff from the Japanese X-TT project, which has been included into
> XFree86-4.0.x. "freetype" is from the xfsft project.
> 

Thanks for the info; that's exactly what I wanted to hear.

slowly filling in the japanese-capable gaps in my system,
john

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