On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:26:20AM -0800, Michael Bax wrote: >XFree86 fails to render TTF fonts on my computer. This is true for the >bundled fonts/TTF/* as well as the Windows fonts.
This is not the right mailing list for cygwin-xfree observations. Redirecting. >There are two problems: > >1. XFree86 does not appear to include the X11 fonts/TTF directory in the >font path by default. This can be shown by removing the Luxi fonts in the >fonts/Type1 directory and rehashing. The server should use the TTF versions >instead, but it does not see these fonts at all. This can be fixed using >xset fp+, but surely the TTF font directory should be included in the path >by default? > >2. After xset fp+ and rehash, the TrueType fonts are listed in e.g. >xfontsel. However, they are not rendered (or are rendered blank)! The same >is true for my custom-installed TrueType fonts. They worked in XFree86 3.x, >however, using the same installation procedure. > >Other fonts are fine, but all TrueType fonts are effectively invisible. > >This is on a fresh installation of Cygwin DLL 1.5.5-1 running on Windows >2000 SP4, with XFree86-bin-4.3.0-6. > >Cheers >Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
