Larry Marshall wrote: > > There is a notorious problem with the installation of the > > FontTastic Font Server on non-Debian-based distros. > > I have no problem with this under LM7.1. > > > Has anyone succeeded to install Wordperfect Office 2000 on > > Mandrake 7.2beta3. Wordperfect Office 2000 (similar Corel > > Nope. > > > Photo Paint) wants to use xfstt but can't, yielding the > > usual error message: > > can't add FontTastic fontserver to fontpath ... > > I had the same problem but it looks like the problem traces back to > the installation of the fontastic package, where there's an error > saying that there is a conflict with an initscripts-5.27 that's > attributed to LM. So far I haven't been able to figure out a > solution. > > What is "xfstt"? I can find no evidence of it in LM7.1 and yet > everything works fine there. > > Cheers --- Larry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. xfstt is afaik the 1st or one of the 1st free true type rasterisers available, GPL. Sort of a 1 man project, and handles fonts a bit differently than XFree. I've heard it helps Netscape, especially with larger sizes.
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