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
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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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